IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Leicester
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2017MA027027
  • User Pedon ID: S2017MA027027
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0873
  • User Project ID: HARV_001_NEON
  • Project Name: Harvard Forest
  • Print Date: 4/22/2026

    • 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: 42.4302000
  • Std. Longitude: -72.2534167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Pit;HARV;20170825;HARV_027; Donald Parizek Jacob Isleib Milton Vega;8.4;62;40X40 SW;center of pit
  • Map Unit: 927C—Montauk-Scituate-Canton association, 3 to 15 percent slopes, extremely stony
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA027—Worcester
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42072-D3—Quabbin Reservoir, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Donald Parizek
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Typic Humaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Leicester
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Typic Humaquepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 26 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/25/2017
  • Classifier - Donald Parizek
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy melt-out till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent nonflat subangular 250- to 600-millimeter mixed, 5.00 percent nonflat subrounded 76- to 250-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 27
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - HARV_027
  • DSP Plot ID - SW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 62
  • Plot Baseline Length - 8
  • Plot Width - 40
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Center of pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Donald Parizek

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/25/2017 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Jacob Isleib
  • 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 - 21
  • Kind of Land: nongrazable woodland understory
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—52

    52—80

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    —28—
    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

    6

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    182

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    348

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; many very fine roots throughout and many very coarse roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and many coarse roots throughout; fragments; abrupt broken boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Horizon not sampled
    A1—1 to 16 centimeters (0.4 to 6.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face very stony mucky fine sandy loam; strong coarse granular structure; friable; many very fine roots throughout and many very coarse roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and many coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-39-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 76-163-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N04273; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—16 to 36 centimeters (6.3 to 14.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face very stony mucky fine sandy loam; strong coarse granular structure; friable; many very fine roots throughout and common very coarse roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-39-76 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 76-163-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N04274; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A3—36 to 52 centimeters (14.2 to 20.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face very stony fine sandy loam; moderate coarse granular structure; friable; common very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-39-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 76-163-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N04275; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bg—52 to 80 centimeters (20.5 to 31.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face very stony fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-39-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 76-163-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; 5 percent krotovinas (volume percent); moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 17N04276; moist when described; observed in pit, small. some firm pockets
    Cg—80 to 100 centimeters (31.5 to 39.4 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) broken face very stony sandy loam; massive; friable; 5 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 20 percent coarse prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-39-78 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 76-163-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter. Lab sample # 17N04277; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket