Pedon Description Report - Tihonet Series 2302302

Print Date:

03/13/2003

Description Date:

10/13/2000

Describer:

Jim Turenne

Site ID:

MA023-2000-02302-Tihonet-S

Site Notes:

Pedon ID:

MA023-2000-02302-Tihonet-P

Pedon Notes:

Lab Source ID:

Lab Pedon #:

Soil Name as Described/Sampled:	Tihonet
Soil Name as Correlated:
Classification:

Pedon Type:

typical pedon for series

Pedon Purpose:

field note

Taxon Kind:

series

Associated Soils:

Berryland, Carver, Deerfield, Freetown, Hinckley, Swansea

Location Information

Country:

State:

Massachusetts

County:

PLYMOUTH

MLRA:

149B -- Long Island-Cape Cod Coastal Lowland

Soil Survey Area:

MA023 -- Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Map Unit:

23A -- Tihonet coarse sand, 0 to 3 percent slopes

Quad Name:

Wareham, Massachusetts

Location Description:

Weston Bog - West of bog 7 Upper, 160 meters East of Tremont Street, 350 meters West of Federal Furnace Pond in the town of Carver on USGS Wareham quadrangle.

Legal Description:

Latitude:

41 degrees 52 minutes 34.40 seconds north

Longitude:

70 degrees 43 minutes 10.30 seconds west

Datum:

NAD83

UTM Zone:

UTM Easting:

357238 meters

UTM Northing:

4637485 meters

Physiographic Division:

Atlantic Lowland

Physiographic Province:

Coastal Plain

Physiographic Section:

Sea Island section

State Physiographic Area:

Local Physiographic Area:

Wareham Outwash Plain

Geomorphic Setting:

toeslope of scalped area on pitted outwash plain on outwash plain

Upslope Shape:

linear

Cross Slope Shape:

linear

Primary Earth Cover:

grass/herbaceous cover

Secondary Earth Cover:

other grass/herbaceous cover

Existing Vegetation:

sedge

Parent Material:

glaciofluvial deposits

Bedrock Kind:

Bedrock Depth:

Bedrock Hardness:

Bedrock Fracture Interval:

Surface Fragments:

Particle Size Control Section:

25 to 100 cm.

Diagnostic Features:

aquic conditions

0 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)
0	30		9	20	-2	1234		poorly

C1--0 to 18 centimeters; light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) broken face, coarse sand; single grain; loose, noncemented, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 2 percent rounded 2- to 76-millimeter mixed rock fragments; clear wavy boundary.

C2--18 to 36 centimeters; 60 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) broken face and 40 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face, sand; single grain; loose, noncemented, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 40 percent coarse prominent irregular dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; 2 percent rounded 2- to 76-millimeter mixed rock fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.

C3--36 to 76 centimeters; 95 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face and 5 percent black (5YR 2.5/1) broken face, sand; single grain; loose, noncemented, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 5 percent medium distinct cylindrical black (5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix and 5 percent coarse distinct cylindrical black (5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix and 5 percent medium distinct cylindrical black (5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent rounded 2- to 76-millimeter mixed rock fragments.