IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Scituate
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958MA015001
  • User Pedon ID: S1958MA015001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0458
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32986
  • 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: 42.2954917
  • Std. Longitude: -72.2557722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Town of Ware, Winslow Road. Old hayfield east side of road, 0.6 of a mile south of Hampshire-Worcester county line. Pinpointed on soil survey field sheet DPB-3H-19, coordinates 7.9X - 9.5Y inches, scale 1:15840. Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
  • Map Unit: 307B—Paxton fine sandy loam, 0 to 8 percent slopes, extremely stony
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA015—Hampshire
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA610—Hampden and Hampshire Counties, Massachusetts, Eastern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42072-C3—Winsor Dam, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Edwood J. Pedersen, Joe Kubota, Fredrick A. Filios, and Stephen J. Zayach.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Humudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Scituate
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/14/2014
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Woodbridge
  • Classificaton Date - 7/21/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till over sandy lodgment till derived from granite
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/21/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    74 - 107

    - 33 -

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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    densic contact

    densic materials

    0—25

    25—74

    51—107

    74—

    74—107

    —25—

    —49—

    —56—

    —-

    —33—
    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

    2

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    —

    223

    —

    105

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; fine sandy loam; weak and moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 6 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03418
    Bw1—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 9 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03419
    Bw2—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) gravelly sandy loam; weak thick platy structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; coarse prominent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and medium faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 16 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03420
    Cd1—74 to 91 centimeters (29.1 to 35.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) sandy loam; weak thick platy structure; friable; coarse faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and medium distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 9 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A03421. 15 percent coarse skeleton.
    Cd2—91 to 107 centimeters (35.8 to 42.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) loamy sand; weak thick platy structure; friable; medium prominent dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and medium faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and coarse faint olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 11 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A03422