USDA - Soil Conservation Service
Pedon Narrative Description
DATE Sampled: 07/16/1991

Soil Series: LIMERICK

Map Unit Name: Limerick silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes

Site Identification #: 91MA023091

Map Unit Symbol: 8A Note ID: Yield ID:

Laboratory Information

Lab Pedon #: 2300801 Source Lab Id:

Location Information

Soil Survey Area #: 023 MLRA: 144A

County FIPS Code:

County Name: Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Soil Survey Area Name: Plymouth County Massachusetts

Location Description: Approximately 250 feet west of the bank of the Salisbury River, at a point 600' north of where the river passes beneath Perkins Ave. in the city of Brockton.

Quadrangle Name: Brockton

Latitude: 42 degrees 3 minutes 56.0 seconds N

Longitude: 71 degrees 0 minutes 49.0 seconds W

UTM Zone: UTM Easting: UTM Northing:

Photograph #: 53229B

Description Category: Full pedon description

Pedon Category: Typical pedon for series

Slope Characteristics Information
Slope: 0 percent
Aspect:
Horizontal Shape: Convex

Elevation: 10.0 feet

Physiography:
Local: Flood Plain
Major: River Valley *

Classification: ____ , ____ , ____ , ____ , ____ ____

Moisture Regime: Udic moisture regime

Landuse: Abandonded cropland
Stoniness: 0.00 percent
Permeability: Slow

Natural Drainage Class: PD

Parent Material: Slightly weathered alluvium from mixed-igneous-metamorphic & sedimentary

Vegetative Information
Plant Name: European Buckthorne, Golden Rod

Described by: P. C. Fletcher

Notes: Weather - sunny, 90 degrees F.

Oi-- 1 to 0 inches; fibric material; abrupt smooth boundary. Non-decomposed twigs and leaves

Ap1-- 0 to 8.5 inches; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very fine sandy loam; common fine dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), few fine dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), and few fine light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) mottles; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; common very fine and fine roots; 4.6; abrupt smooth boundary.

Ap2--8.5 to 13.5 inches; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very fine sandy loam; common medium and coarse yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), common fine and medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), and few fine dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) mottles; massive; friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; common very fine roots; 4.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Pockets and lenses of fine sand that are associated with the high chroma mottles.

C--13.5 to 24 inches; dark gray (10YR 4/1) silt loam; common medium and coarse very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and few fine brown (7.5YR 4/3) mottles; massive; friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; common very fine roots; 5.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Bright mottles located along old root channels; roots only in the upper part.

Ab--24 to 31 inches; very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) mucky silt loam; common fine and medium dark gray (10YR 4/1) mottles; massive; friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; 5.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Thin strata fine and very fine sand (10YR 4/1).

C1--31 to 52 inches; dark gray (10YR 4/1) loamy fine sand; common medium and coarse very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and few fine dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) mottles; massive; very friable; 6.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Thin strata silt loam.

C2--52 to 56 inches; very dark gray (10YR 3/1) mucky loamy fine sand; massive; very friable; 6.2; abrupt smooth boundary.

C3--56 to 60 inches; dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) coarse sand; single grain; 6.2.