IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Massena
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NY097003
  • User Pedon ID: 88NY097003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0422
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61526
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024
  • 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: 42.5161095
  • Std. Longitude: -76.7850037
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Finger Lakes National Forest, Compartment 15, Hector Backbone, Schuyler County, New York.
  • State: New York
  • County: NY097—Schuyler
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S.D. DeGloria.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, subactive, nonacid, mesic Aeric Haplaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Massena
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Appleton
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
  • 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

    5

    524

    45

    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium granular, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02374
    AB—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 89P02375
    EB—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 89P02376
    Btg1—43 to 81 centimeters (16.9 to 31.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) channery silt loam; 11 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) medium distinct mottles; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent faint , moist, clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02377. few clay films surface features; common medium distinct 2.5Y44 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233020; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233020
    Btg2—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and gray (10YR 5/1) channery loam; moderate medium platy, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02378
    BC—107 to 191 centimeters (42.1 to 75.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) channery loam; 11 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium platy structure; friable; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02379. common medium distinct 10YR44 mottles
    Cd—191 centimeters (75.2 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) channery clay loam; moderate medium platy structure; firm; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02380