IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Leicester
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958MA015006
  • User Pedon ID: S1958MA015006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0438
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32966
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 42.2566452
  • Std. Longitude: -72.2836685
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Ware township, Old Andersen Hill Road. Sepanek farm, pasture in back of barn on the south side of the road. Soil survey photograph DPB-3H-1B, coordinates 6.2x - 5.7Y inches, scale 1:15840.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA015—Hampshire
  • MLRA: 145—Connecticut Valley
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA609—Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Central Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42072-C3—Winsor Dam, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Edwood J. Pedersen, Joseph Kubota, Fredrick A. Filios, and Stephen J. Zayach.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Typic Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Leicester
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/4/2012
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Leicester
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till derived from granite and/or till derived from gneiss and/or till derived from schist
  • Landscape: glaciated upland
  • Landform: drainageway
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/24/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    endosaturation

    aquic conditions

    0—18

    15—43

    15—119

    15—119

    —18—

    —28—

    —104—

    —104—
    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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    198

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    61

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) fine sandy loam; weak and moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03278
    Bw1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) fine prominent and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) medium prominent mottles; weak medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03279. Contains very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) organic stains; many intrusions of black (10YR 2/1) A1 material in wormholes and casts throughout horizon.
    Bw2—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) fine sandy loam; brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine and medium distinct and dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) and 5YR 3/ (5YR 3/ fine prominent mottles; massive parts to weak medium granular; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03280
    Cg1—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and olive gray (5Y 4/2) very gravelly fine sandy loam; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) medium distinct and brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine and medium prominent mottles; massive; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03281
    Cg2—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) gravelly fine sandy loam; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) medium and coarse distinct and brown (7.5YR 4/4) medium and coarse distinct and reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3) medium prominent mottles; massive; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03282. Skeletons mostly coarse gravel.
    C—84 to 119 centimeters (33.1 to 46.9 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) gravelly loamy sand; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) distinct mottles; massive parts to single grain parts to platy; friable; 25 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A03283. Stones and smaller fragments capped on the top with very fine sands, silts, and possibly clays; coarse skeletons consist mainly of gravels 1/4 to 1 inch in diameter.