IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Merrimac
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956MA015002
  • User Pedon ID: 1956MA015002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0446
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32974
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 42.4188690
  • Std. Longitude: -72.5261765
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Hampshire County, Massachusetts. David E. Maxson farm, Amherst. Sample taken 150 feet south of homestead.
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA015—Hampshire
  • MLRA: 145—Connecticut Valley
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA609—Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Central Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Edwood J. Pedersen, Steve Davidson, Fredrick A. Filios, Robert F. Reiske, and William H. Coates.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Oxic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Merrimac
  • PSC - 25 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/19/2012
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Merrimac
  • Classificaton Date - 10/3/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/3/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—25

    25—43

    84—

    84—

    —25—

    —18—

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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

    0

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03332
    Bw1—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very fine sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine and medium granular structure; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03333. Traffic pan present and has a coarse, platy structure.
    Bw2—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) loamy fine sand; single grain; loose; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03334
    Bw3—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and very pale brown (10YR 7/4) loamy fine sand; coarse mottles; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03335
    Bw4—79 to 84 centimeters (31.1 to 33.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loamy coarse sand; weakly cemented; 38 percent skeletans; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03336. Few silt and clay flows on faces of peds.
    2R—84 to 109 centimeters (33.1 to 42.9 inches); coarse sand, gravel; fragments. Lab sample # 40A03337. Not sampled. Coarse skeleton throughout profile; 80 percent granitic, 20 percent schistose.