IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marlow
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955MA015001
  • User Pedon ID: 55MA015001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1955MA015001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0442
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32970
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 42.3916473
  • Std. Longitude: -72.9334106
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Hampshire County, Massachusetts. A.E. Albert Farm, Rt. 112, approximately 1/2 mile south of Worthington Center. Sample area in forested area just down the hill from potato storage, about 200 feet in the forest.
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA015—Hampshire
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA609—Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Central Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L.T. Alexander, W.H. Coates, H.V. Goodell, F.A. Filios, and W.H. Lyford.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Oxyaquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marlow
  • PSC - 25 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/18/2014
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Marlow
  • Classificaton Date - 10/13/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/13/1955 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BEPO

    FRAXI

    PICEA

    TSUGA

    VACO

    Betula populifolia

    Fraxinus

    Picea

    Tsuga

    Vaccinium corymbosum

    gray birch

    ash

    spruce

    hemlock

    highbush blueberry

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    71 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    0—15

    15—71

    71—

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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

    12

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) loam; weak and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 21.0 roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A03308. Contains less than 5 percent coarse skeleton. Stones 1-2 feet in diameter occur on the surface at distances of 20-50 feet. In the profile, stones of this size are perhaps 6-10 feet apart. There is loose litter on the surface consisting mostly of the present year's leaf fall.
    Bw1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) loam; weak fine granular parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; very friable; 0.5 fine pores; fragments. Lab sample # 40A03309. A few faint nonglazed pores occur in the interior of the peds. On the faces, there are glazed bridges between the sand particles on the sandpaper-like surfaces.
    Bw2—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very friable; fine faint ; fragments. Lab sample # 40A03310. Freshly broken out, material exhibits 50-50 vertical and horizontal faces. Contains fine faint common mottles in and on many peds and a few dark brown manganese dioxide stains on the surfaces.
    Bw3—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); olive (5Y 4/4) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine angular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist,; fragments. Lab sample # 40A03311. Dominantly moderate 1/4 inch platy. There are few dark brown to black manganese stains on the surface. A few dark brown soft weathered ghosts 1/2-1 inch in diameter occur in this horizon and in the horizons above and below.
    Cd1—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) and olive (5Y 4/4) loam; weak and moderate medium platy structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; fragments. Lab sample # 40A03312. Glazed more or less continuous channels 1-5 mm. wide occur on the horizontal surfaces of many of the plates.
    Cd2—91 to 109 centimeters (35.8 to 42.9 inches); loam; moderate medium platy structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A03313. Like the horizon above but somewhat firmer.
    Cd3—109 to 124 centimeters (42.9 to 48.8 inches); loam; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A03314. Like the horizon above but less firm and perhaps with fewer glazed channels on the surface of the plates. There are no pores in the interior of the plates in any of the lower three horizons.