IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tunbridge
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001MA011002
  • User Pedon ID: S2001MA011002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2001MA011002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01P0090
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 12981
  • 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: 42.5494461
  • Std. Longitude: -72.8274994
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Bear Swamp Reservation; 575 feet west of Hawley road from 840 feet south of int. w/Tatro road.
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA011—Franklin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA011—Franklin County, Massachusetts
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42072-E7—Ashfield, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Al Averill, Glen Motzkin, Jessie Bellemare
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tunbridge
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/31/2014
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/20/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    FAGUS

    PICEA

    Fagus

    Picea

    beech

    spruce

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    91 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—10

    5—10

    10—28

    91—

    —10—

    —5—

    —9—

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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

    2

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    488

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    225

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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 5 percent by volume , 7 percent by weight 2-5-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P00604
    L—1 to 0 centimeters (0.4 to 0.0 inches); fragments. Beech, Birch, Red Maple leaf litter.
    A2—3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) stony sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 5 percent by volume , 7 percent by weight 2-5-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. gravel <5%; A1/A2 combined with sample number 01P0604.
    E—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) stony sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 11 percent by volume , 16 percent by weight 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P00605. gravel <5%.
    Bhs—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 9 percent by volume , 12 percent by weight 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P00606
    Bw—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 12 percent by volume , 17 percent by weight 2-5-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P00607
    C—46 to 91 centimeters (18.1 to 35.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) gravelly very fine sandy loam; massive; very friable; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume , 14 percent by weight 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P00608. roots: v0+1.
    R—91 centimeters (35.8 inches); bedrock; fragments. hard schist bedrock.