IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Paxton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955MA027002
  • User Pedon ID: S1955MA027002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0449
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32977
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 42.0916750
  • Std. Longitude: -71.9690639
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Worcester County, Massachusetts. Field opposite intersection of Dresser Hill Road and Route 31. Charlton, Dress Hill Farm.
  • Map Unit: 305B—Paxton fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA027—Worcester
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA615—Worcester County, Massachusetts, Southern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42071-A8—Webster, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L.T. Alexander, W.H. Coates, R.F. Reiske, and W.H. Lyford.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Paxton
  • PSC - 25 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Paxton
  • Classificaton Date - 10/12/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: drumlin
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/12/1955 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    56 - 140

    - 84 -

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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    densic materials

    aquic conditions

    0—20

    20—56

    56—

    56—140

    104—140

    —20—

    —36—

    —-

    —84—

    —36—
    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

    8

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    —

    255.4

    —

    169

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) fine sandy loam; weak and moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A03358. Earthworms common and night crawlers numerous. The latter penetrate vertically down to 24-30 inches but cause essentially no mixing in the B21 horizon.
    Bw1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 40A03359. A few non-glazed pores occur in the blocky peds.
    Bw2—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak and moderate platy structure; friable; 0.5 pores; 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 40A03360. Pores are glazed; A few brown soft weathered finely micaceous ghosts occur. The soil to 22 inches was dug fairly easily with a shovel but a pick was also used.
    Cd1—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak and moderate coarse platy structure; firm; 3.0 fine pores; 18 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 40A03361. This material felt sandy when first rubbed between the fingers but after some rubbing, felt like loam. A pick was used to loosen the material in this horizon and in those below.
    Cd2—81 to 104 centimeters (31.9 to 40.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak and moderate coarse platy structure; firm; 3.0 fine pores; 18 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 40A03362. Like the horizon above, water runs in from the side of the hole at about 22 inches. This material felt sandy when first rubbed between the fingers but after some rubbing, felt like loam.
    Cd3—104 to 122 centimeters (40.9 to 48.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak and moderate medium platy structure; 0.5 pores; 20 percent olive (5Y 5/3), moist, and olive gray (5Y 5/2), moist,; 18 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 40A03363. Few faint glazed pores visible on the peds.
    Cd4—122 to 140 centimeters (48.0 to 55.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; massive parts to weak coarse platy; very firm; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular weakly coherent cemented 25-38-51 millimeter mixed fragments and 18 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 13-48-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 40A03364. 15-20 percent coarse skeleton in the 1/2-3 inch range. Brown micaceous ghosts 1-2 inches in diameter are fairly common. Finely micaceous.