IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ridgebury
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991MA023008
  • User Pedon ID: S1991MA023008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0795
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63833
  • 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: 42.0736389
  • Std. Longitude: -70.9087250
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Whitman Quad, town of Hanson, 800 feet E Franklin Street, 4700 feet S of the intersection of S Avenue & Whitman Street in Whitman
  • Map Unit: 316B—Scituate fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes, very stony
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA023—Plymouth
  • 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: MA023—Plymouth County, Massachusetts
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42070-A8—Whitman, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Pete Fletcher, Jim Turenne, Larry Brown, Ken Thomps
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic, shallow Aquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ridgebury
  • PSC - 25 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/21/2012
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ridgeway
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: drumlin
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: depression
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 1.45 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 35
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    54 - 150

    - 96 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    hemic soil materials

    sapric soil materials

    albic materials

    albic horizon

    spodic materials

    spodic horizon

    cambic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    densic materials

    0—15

    0—4

    4—13

    13—15

    13—15

    15—20

    15—20

    20—54

    31—150

    54—150

    —15—

    —4—

    —10—

    —2—

    —2—

    —30—

    —5—

    —34—

    —119—

    —96—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    41

    —

    315

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    Oe—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2) and reddish gray (5YR 5/2) moderately decomposed plant material; very friable; 5.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine to coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4653
    Oa—4 to 13 centimeters (1.6 to 5.1 inches); black (5YR 2/1) and gray (5YR 5/1) highly decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine to coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4654
    E—13 to 15 centimeters (5.1 to 5.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0) gravelly sandy loam; massive; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume , 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4655
    Bhs—15 to 20 centimeters (5.9 to 7.9 inches); fine sandy loam; massive; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume , 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4656
    Bw1—20 to 31 centimeters (7.9 to 12.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine sandy loam; massive; friable; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine to coarse roots; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume , 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4657
    2Bw2—31 to 45 centimeters (12.2 to 17.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) gravelly loamy sand; massive; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 11 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume , 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4658
    2BC—45 to 54 centimeters (17.7 to 21.3 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) gravelly loamy sand; massive; friable; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine to coarse roots; 1 percent fine faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 11 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume , 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4659
    2Cd1—54 to 66 centimeters (21.3 to 26.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loamy sand; weak coarse platy structure; firm; brittle; 11 percent fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume , 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4660
    2Cd2—66 to 150 centimeters (26.0 to 59.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) gravelly loamy sand; weak coarse platy structure; firm; brittle; 11 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume , 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 91P4661