USDA - Soil Conservation Service
Pedon Narrative Description
DATE Sampled: 08/25/1992

Soil Series: LIMERICK

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

Component Name: Limerick

Site Identification #: 92MA023006

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

Laboratory Information UMASS S-92MA023001

Lab Pedon #: 2300802 Source Lab Id: UMASS

Soil Survey Area #: 023 MLRA: 144A

County Name: Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Soil Survey Area Name: Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Location Description: 50 feet east of the Matfield River, at a point approximately 0.45 miles northwest of the bridge on Bridge St., in the town of East Bridgewater, MA.

Quadrangle Name:

Latitude: 42 degrees 0 minutes 33.0 seconds N

Longitude: 70 degrees 57 minutes 8.0 seconds W

UTM Zone: UTM Easting: UTM Northing:

Photograph #: 142D

Description Category: Full pedon description

Pedon Category: Typical pedon for series

Slope Characteristics Information
Slope: 1 percent
Aspect: 90 degrees
Horizontal Shape: Convex

Elevation: 25.0 feet

Physiography:
Local: Flood Plain
Major: River Valley *

Flooding Information
Frequency: Frequent

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

Landuse: Wetlands
Stoniness: 0.00 percent
Permeability: Slow

Natural Drainage Class: PD

Parent Material: Weathered alluvium from mixed-igneous-metamorphic & sedimentary

Vegetative Information
Plant Name: Golden Rod, Sedges, Touch me nots, Polygnian

Described by: Judy Bartos, Richard Bonner, Nichola Shirt, Richard Meczywor, and Pete Fletcher

Notes: Weather - sunny, 90 degrees F.; samples taken for laboratory analysis at UMass; pit and mound micro topography - relief less than 6".

Oi-- 1 to 0 inches; fibric material; abrupt wavy boundary.

A-- 0 to 9 inches; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam, gray (10YR 5/1) dry; moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; common very fine and fine roots and common medium; 4.4 Bromcresol green; abrupt smooth boundary. Fine (0.5 cm) bands of lighter colored (2.5Y 5/2) very fine sands.

C-- 9 to 17 inches; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; common fine and medium prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) mottles; weak massive; friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; common very fine roots and common fine; 4.6 Bromcresol green; abrupt smooth boundary. Few light gray, uncoated, quartz sand grains; possible weak granular structure; mottles 15% surface area; also, some very faint blotches of gray mottles could be seen but colors were not contrasting enough to record different color.

Ab--17 to 20 inches; very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; few fine distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and prominent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3) mottles; weak massive; friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; common very fine roots; 4.6 Bromcresol green; abrupt smooth boundary. Fine (0.5 cm) bands of lighter colored (2.5Y 5/2) very fine sands; possible weak angular blocky structure; mottles 15% of surface area.

C1--20 to 37 inches; very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; common fine and medium distinct dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3) and faint dark gray (10YR 4/1) mottles; weak massive; friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; common very fine and fine roots; 4.6 Bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Mottles 30% of surface area.

C2--37 to 54 inches; dark gray (5Y 4/1) silt loam; common fine and medium prominent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3) mottles; weak massive; friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; 6.4 Chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Mottles 12% of surface area; unusually high jump in pH, possibly result of groundwater associated with river water.

C3--54 to 72 inches; dark gray (5Y 4/1) silt loam; few fine and medium prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4) mottles; weak massive; friable, nonsticky and nonplastic. Distinct rotten egg smell, interpreted as hydrogen sulfide.