IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Agawam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957NH013003
  • User Pedon ID: S1957NH013003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0472
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33000
  • 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: 43.0827789
  • Std. Longitude: -71.4644470
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Merrimack County, New Hampshire. Hookset, 300 yards SE junction Route 3 and 3A, east side of Merrimack River in idle field.
  • State: New Hampshire
  • County: NH013—Merrimack
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NH013—Merrimack County, New Hampshire

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Pedersen, Dirk van der Voet, H.E. Winkley, A.D. Hamilton, and E. Hutchinson.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic 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 #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Agawam
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/21/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Agawam
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/31/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    reduced matrix

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—23

    23—61

    79—160

    124—160

    160—

    —23—

    —38—

    —81—

    —36—

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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

    3

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) very fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03525
    Bw1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) very fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to single grain; very friable; 21.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03526. Worm channels.
    Bw2—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); yellow (10YR 7/8) very fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to single grain; very friable; 3.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03527
    C—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); yellow (2.5Y 7/8) loamy fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky parts to single grain; very friable; 3.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03528. Slight leaching.
    Cg1—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) loamy fine sand; faint mottles; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03529
    Cg2—97 to 124 centimeters (38.2 to 48.8 inches); yellow (2.5Y 8/6) loamy fine sand; 21 percent olive (5Y 5/6) medium prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky parts to single grain; very friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03530
    Cg3—124 to 160 centimeters (48.8 to 63.0 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) very fine sandy loam; 21 percent 2.5Y 3/ (2.5Y 3/ medium prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky parts to single grain; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03531
    2C—160 to 175 centimeters (63.0 to 68.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A03532. Not sampled.