UDIPSAMMENTS, WET - 00170001

USDA - NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE - PEDON DESCRIPTION

Print Date: 12/17/2002

Description Date: 02/16/2000

Describers: J Turenne, & R Tunstead

Site ID: 23MA023-2000-70003-S (NOTE: PEDON CHANGED TO 00170001 JDT)

Site Note: County Name: Barnstable

Quad: Wareham

Location: Town of Bourne- Little Bay Ln & Fabyan Way

Pedon ID: MA023-2000-70003-P

Pedon Note: Test pit for stormwater runoff project. Backhoe pit. 60" of human transported fill underlain by buried scarboro/sandyhook soils. Human artifacts in fill layer (bituminous asphalt, broken clay pipe).

Described at low tide.

Correlation box & photo taken; mottles are described under pedon horizon color

Lab Source ID: Lab Pedon #:

Soil Name as Described/Sampled: Udipsamments, wet substratum

Soil Name as Correlated:

Classification:

Pedon Type: Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Taxon Kind:

Associated Soils: Carver, Deerfield, Fortress, Plymouth

Location Information:

Country: USA

State: Massachusetts

County: Barnstable

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

Soil Survey Area: MA001 – Barnstable County, Description used for the Soil Survey Update of Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Map Unit:700

Quad Name: Sagamore

Location Description: Town of Bourne, intersection of Little Bay Ln. and Fabian Way.

Legal Description:

Latitude: 41 degrees 45 minutes 36.38 seconds north

Longitude: 70 degrees 36 minutes 16.00 seconds west

Datum: NAD 83

UTM Zone:19

UTM Easting:366610

UTM Northing:4624981

Physiographic Division: Atlantic Lowland

Physiographic Province: Coastal Plain

Physiographic Section: Embayed Section

State Physiographic Area: Wareham Outwash Plain

Local Physiographic Area: Buzzards Bay

Geomorphic Setting: outwash plain, pitted outwash plain

Upslope Shape: concave Cross Slope Shape: linear

Primary Earth Cover:Tree cover

Secondary Earth Cover: Other grass/herbaceous cover

Plant Association Name:

Existing Vegetation:pitch pine

Parent Material: Human transported fill overlying very poorly drained soil (Scarboro).

Bedrock Kind:

Bedrock Depth: > 200 feet

Bedrock Hardness:

Bedrock Fracture Interval:

Surface Fragments:

Particle Size Control Section:

Diagnostic Features:? to ? in.

Slope: 3-8 %

Elevation: 9 feet

Drainage: MWD

PROFILE DESCRIPTION:

Ap--0 to 38 centimeters (0.0 to 15.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loamy coarse sand; massive; friable; common very fine tubular pores; 13 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter 1:1 water; abrupt wavy boundary.

C1--38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 25 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) and 5 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) coarse sand, coarse sand, coarsesand; single grain; loose; common fine tubular pores; 13 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, pH meter 1:1 water; abrupt wavy boundary.

2A'p--64 to 74 centimeters (25.2 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loamy coarse sand; massive; friable; common very fine tubular pores; 10 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, pH meter 1:1 water; abrupt wavy boundary.

2C2--74 to 105 centimeters (29.1 to 41.3 inches); 60 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) coarse sand, loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose; 10 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, pH meter 1:1 water; clear wavy boundary.

2C3--105 to 135 centimeters (41.3 to 53.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) coarse sand; single grain; loose; neutral, pH 7.2, pH meter 1:1 water; abrupt wavy boundary.

2C4--135 to 152 centimeters (53.1 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) coarse sand; single grain; loose; 5 percent fine faint irregular grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; neutral, pH 7.2; abrupt smooth boundary.

3OC--152 to 163 centimeters (59.8 to 64.2 inches); muck, coarse sand; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter 1:1 water; abrupt smooth boundary.

4C5--163 centimeters (64.2 inches); coarse sand; single grain; loose; 15 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter 1:1 water.