IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marshneck
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019MA007019
  • User Pedon ID: S2019MA007019
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0217
  • User Project ID: 2020_CZSS_high_done
  • Project Name: MLRA 149B - CZSS_Lagoon and Sengekontacket Coastal Ponds_Udipsammets_MA007_MA019
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 41.4166389
  • Std. Longitude: -70.5513889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Near historic opening of Sengekontacket pond
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA007—Dukes
  • MLRA: 149B—Long Island-Cape Cod Coastal Lowland
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA007—Dukes County, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Parizek, M. Vega
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy over loamy, aniso, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Haplic Sulfiwassents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.3b
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Marshneck
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy over loamy, aniso, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Haplic Sulfiwassents
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 0 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/15/2019
  • Classifier - Donald Parizek
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Subaqueous Soils Information:
  • SAS Pipe Length Total - 457.2
  • SAS Pipe Length External - 268.2
  • SAS Pipe Length Unfilled - 320
  • SAS Core Settlement - 51.8
  • SAS Core Length - 137.6
  • SAS Core Storage Site - UMASS


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy marine deposits and/or silty marine deposits and/or sandy marine deposits sandy and gravelly estuarine deposits over silty estuarine deposits over sandy and gravelly estuarine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal lagoon
  • Landform: flood-tidal delta
  • Drainage Class: subaqueous
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Parizek, Vega

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/12/2019 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: D. Parizek
  • Surface Water Kind: permanent
  • Surface Water Depth: 91
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - water cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Cse1

    Cse2

    2Aseb

    3Cse

    3C

    0

    33

    65

    80

    105

    33

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    105

    120

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Cse1

    Cse2

    2Aseb

    3Cse

    3C

    0

    33

    65

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    105

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    120

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Cse1

    Cse2

    2Aseb

    3Cse

    3C

    0

    33

    65

    80

    105

    33

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    120

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    sulfidic materials

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—105

    65—80

    80—

    —105—

    —15—

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    Cse1—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); 80 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) and 20 percent dark greenish gray (10Y 3/1) gravelly coarse sand, sand; nonfluid; 10 percent by volume shell fragments fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; none odor; reduced monosulfides present; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear boundary. Lab sample # 20N00849; observed in vibracore tube
    Cse2—33 to 65 centimeters (13.0 to 25.6 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) gravelly coarse sand; nonfluid; 30 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; none odor; reduced monosulfides present; neutral, pH 7.2; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 20N00850; observed in vibracore tube
    2Aseb—65 to 80 centimeters (25.6 to 31.5 inches); very dark gray (N 3/), silt loam; moderately fluid; 5 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; moderate sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; clear boundary. Lab sample # 20N00851; observed in vibracore tube
    3Cse—80 to 105 centimeters (31.5 to 41.3 inches); dark greenish gray (10Y 3/1) coarse sand; nonfluid; 2 percent by volume shell fragments fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; slight sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear boundary. Lab sample # 20N00852; observed in vibracore tube
    3C—105 to 120 centimeters (41.3 to 47.2 inches); dark greenish gray (10Y 4/1) very gravelly coarse sand; nonfluid; 40 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; none odor; moderately acid, pH 5.9. Lab sample # 20N00853; observed in vibracore tube