IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Merrimac
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008MA023003-Merrimac-S (forested)
  • User Pedon ID: S2008MA023003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2008MA023003-Merrimac-S
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0699
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20001
  • 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: 41.7389984
  • Std. Longitude: -70.8586349
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a forested site in the town of Rochester, 128 feet directly North of Rounseville Road (Route 105) and 3314 feet West-Southwest of the intersection of Vaughn Hill Road and Rounseville Road. Property owned by Lisa Holden and site of a water table monitoring well for town.
  • Country: US—United States
  • 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: 41070-F7—Marion, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Debbie Surabian, Donald Parizek, and Rob Tunstead
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Merrimac
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/19/2012
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Merrimac
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, mixed, nonacid, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Classificaton Date - 8/18/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landscape: outwash plain
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/18/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 1-216
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 26
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CHIMA

    PIST

    QUVE

    SMILA2

    VACO

    Chimaphila

    Pinus strobus

    Quercus velutina

    Smilax

    Vaccinium corymbosum

    prince's pine

    eastern white pine

    black oak

    greenbrier

    highbush blueberry

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

    ochric epipedon

    hemic soil materials

    sapric soil materials

    cambic horizon

    0—25

    0—4

    4—8

    25—49

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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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    17.4

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    250

    1225

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    201

    9.4

    20.4

    -1.9

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    MA6938

    ROCHESTER

    WETS Station
    Oe—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); black (5YR 2.5/1) broken face and black (5YR 2.5/1) rubbed moderately decomposed plant material; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.8, bromcresol green; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N04350; observed in pit, small
    Oa—4 to 8 centimeters (1.6 to 3.1 inches); 95 percent black (7.5YR 2.5/1) broken face and 5 percent light gray (7.5YR 7/1) exterior and black (7.5YR 2.5/1) rubbed highly decomposed plant material; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, bromcresol green; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N04351; observed in pit, small
    Ap—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 0.5 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-76 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N04352; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—25 to 49 centimeters (9.8 to 19.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 0.1 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-76 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N04353; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—49 to 69 centimeters (19.3 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 0.1 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-76 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N04354; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—69 to 117 centimeters (27.2 to 46.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 8 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-76 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N04355; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—117 to 200 centimeters (46.1 to 78.7 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) exterior stratified stratified sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; 5.0 very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 25 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-76 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 08N04356; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small