IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hooksan

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: S2013MA001001

User Pedon ID: S2013MA001001

Vegetation Plot ID: S2013MA001001

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes

Lab Source ID - SSL

Lab Pedon # - 13N96699

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72955

Print Date: 6/3/2024

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: 42.0681389

Std. Longitude: -70.2129167

Datum: WGS84

Location Description: Sample site for the resistant minerals project involving Hooksan soils (quartzi vs. udipsamments). GPS point 575 from Jacob Isleib's unit. Located off Herring Pong Road in the Cape Cod National Seashore. Bulk density sample volumes for the Oe horizon replicates are as follows: #1= 7*8*8cm; #2= 9*7*8cm; #3= 8*8*9cm

State: Massachusetts

County: MA001—Barnstable

MLRA: 149B—Long Island-Cape Cod Coastal Lowland

Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA001—Barnstable County, Massachusetts

7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42070-A2—Provincetown, Massachusetts

PEDON

Describers Name: Donald Parizek, Glen Stanisewski, Jacob Isleib, Marissa Theve

Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic, uncoated Typic Quartzipsamments

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series

Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site

Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Hooksan

Taxonomic Class - Mesic, uncoated Typic Quartzipsamments

Taxon Kind - series

Classificaton Date - 6/18/2013

Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition

Moisture Class - udic

Moisture SUBClass - typic

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:

Forest Overstory Veg. Type - tree

Forest Understory Veg. Type - annual grass

Hydric: no

Certification Status: certified

QC Status: level 1

SITE

Parent Material: sandy eolian deposits

Geomorphic Component Hills: crest

Hill Slope Profile: summit

Slope Complexity: complex

Slope Shape Across: convex

Slope Shape Down: convex

Runoff: very low

Ksat Class Upper: very high

Ksat Class Lower: very high

Drainage Class: excessively

Surface Fragments:

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 6/18/2013 (actual site observation date)

Data Collector: Donald Perizek, Jacob Isleib, G. Stanisewski, Marissa Theve

Surface Cover Properties:

Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover

Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Drained? - no

Bedded Soil? - no

Forest Plantation? - no

Current Weather - partly cloudy

Current Air Temp - 24

Site Erosion Accelerated: wind erosion

Vegetation Plot Plants
Plant Symbol	Scientific Name	National Vernacular Name	Plant Type Group	Canopy Cover %	Vegetation Stata Level
DEFL PINI QUIL RHVI2 TORA2	Deschampsia flexuosa Pinus nigra Quercus ilicifolia Rhododendron viscosum Toxicodendron radicans	wavy hairgrass Austrian pine bear oak swamp azalea eastern poison ivy	— — — — —	— — — — —	— — — — —

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
hemic soil materials ochric epipedon albic horizon albic materials	0—9 0—9 9—33 9—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
8	—	—	15.2	—	125	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Oe—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/3) broken face and very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) rubbed moderately decomposed plant material; 2 percent sand; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; many (5.0) very fine roots throughout and many (5.0) medium roots throughout and many (5.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N09490; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Thin discontinuous Oi horizon on surface dominated by pitch pine needles; this discontinuous Oa horizon at the bottom of the Oe.

E—9 to 33 centimeters (3.5 to 13.0 inches); 80 percent gray (10YR 6/1) and 20 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; many (5.0) very fine roots throughout and many (5.0) medium roots throughout and many (5.0) fine roots throughout and many (5.0) coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N09491; moist when described; observed in pit, small

CB—33 to 50 centimeters (13.0 to 19.7 inches); 90 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) and 10 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; few (0.5) very fine roots throughout and few (0.5) medium roots throughout and few (0.5) fine roots throughout; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N09492; moist when described; observed in pit, small

C1—50 to 115 centimeters (19.7 to 45.3 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) coarse sand; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium mottles; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; few (0.5) very fine roots throughout and few (0.5) medium roots throughout and few (0.5) fine roots throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 13N09493; moist when described; observed in pit, small. 10% medium 10YR5/6 mottles are on sand grains near roots.

C2—115 to 216 centimeters (45.3 to 85.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; few (0.1) very fine roots throughout and few (0.1) medium roots throughout and few (0.1) fine roots throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 13N09494; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket