Pedon Description Report

Limerick Pedon 2300803
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Print Date:

08/03/2004

Description Date:

07/16/2004

Describer:

Rob Tunstead, Melissa Hayden

Site ID:

MA023-2004-00803-Limerick-S

Site Notes:

Pedon ID:

MA023-2004-00803-Limerick-P

Pedon Notes:

Lab Source ID:

Lab Pedon #:

Soil Name as Described/Sampled:	Limerick silt loam
Soil Name as Correlated:
Classification:	Coarse-silty, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Fluvaquentic Humaquepts

Pedon Type:

typical pedon for series

Pedon Purpose:

full pedon description

Taxon Kind:

series

Associated Soils:

Eldridge, Enosburg, Scio, Winooski

Location Information

Country:

United States

State:

Massachusetts

County:

PLYMOUTH

MLRA:

144A -- New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part

Quad Name:

Location Description:

USGS Whitman quadrangle, Town of East Bridgewater, C.N. Smith Farm, floodplain of the Matfield River. 0.4 miles Northwest of intersection of Bridge St. and South St., 0.7 miles South/Southwest of intersection of Sachem Rock Ave and Route 106.

Legal Description:

Latitude:

42 degrees 0 minutes 31.70 seconds north

Longitude:

70 degrees 56 minutes 57.70 seconds west

Datum:

NAD83

UTM Zone:

UTM Easting:

338578 meters

UTM Northing:

4652592 meters

Physiographic Division:

Physiographic Province:

New England Province

Physiographic Section:

State Physiographic Area:

Local Physiographic Area:

Matfield River floodplain

Geomorphic Setting:

footslope of tread of flood plain on alluvial plain

Upslope Shape:

linear

Cross Slope Shape:

linear

Primary Earth Cover:

wetlands

Secondary Earth Cover:

other grass/herbaceous cover

Plant Association Name:

Existing Vegetation:

sedge

Parent Material:

alluvium

Bedrock Kind:

Bedrock Depth:

Bedrock Hardness:

Bedrock Fracture Interval:

Surface Fragments:

Particle Size Control Section:

25 to 100 cm.

Diagnostic Features:

umbric epipedon

0 to 29 cm.

Restrictions

Top Depth (cm)	Bottom Depth (cm)	Restriction Kind	Restriction Hardness

Slope (%)	Elevation (meters)	Aspect (deg)	MAAT (C)	MSAT (C)	MWAT (C)	MAP (mm)	Frost Free Days	Drainage Class	Slope Length (meters)	Upslope Length (meters)
1	8	230						poorly

A1--0 to 9 centimeters; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; low excavation difficulty; many very fine to medium roots throughout; many fine and medium tubular pores; moderately acid, pH 5.8, Chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.

A2--9 to 29 centimeters; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), silt loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; low excavation difficulty; many very fine to medium roots throughout; many fine and medium tubular pores; 20 percent medium and coarse prominent cylindrical dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries lining pores; moderately acid, pH 5.8, Chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.

Cg1--29 to 43 centimeters; olive gray (5Y 4/2), silt loam; massive; friable; low excavation difficulty; few very fine and fine roots throughout; common fine and medium tubular pores; 10 percent medium and coarse prominent cylindrical strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries lining pores; moderately acid, pH 5.8, Chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.

Ab1--43 to 66 centimeters; dark gray (5Y 4/1), silt loam; massive; friable; low excavation difficulty; few very fine roots throughout; common fine and medium tubular pores; 20 percent medium and coarse prominent cylindrical dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries lining pores; moderately acid, pH 5.8, Chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.

Cg2--66 to 76 centimeters; 50 percent dark gray (5Y 4/1) and 50 percent gray (5Y 5/1), silt loam; massive; friable; low excavation difficulty; common fine and medium tubular pores; 20 percent medium and coarse prominent cylindrical yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries lining pores; moderately acid, pH 5.8, Chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.

Cg3--76 to 116 centimeters; gray (5Y 5/1), silt loam; massive; friable; low excavation difficulty; common fine and medium tubular pores; 20 percent medium and coarse prominent cylindrical strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries lining pores and 20 percent medium and coarse faint cylindrical olive (5Y 5/3), moist, and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries infused into matrix adjacent to pores; moderately acid, pH 5.8, Chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.

Ab2--116 to 132 centimeters; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), silt loam; massive; friable; low excavation difficulty; many fine and medium tubular pores; moderately acid, pH 5.8, Chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary.

2Cg--132 centimeters; dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), sand; single grain; loose; low excavation difficulty; 7 percent nonflat subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter mixed rock fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, Chlorophenol red.