USDA - NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE PEDON DESCRIPTION

Print Date: 12/17/2002
Description Date: 08/29/1995
Describer: MEREDITH SLATER

Site ID: MA023-1995-001-S
Site Note:
NASIS Pedon ID: MA023-1995-001-P
COUNTY ID: 2303703
Pedon Note:

Soil Name as Described/Sampled: PIPESTONE
Soil Name as Correlated: MASHPEE
Classification:
Pedon Type: within range of map unit
Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
Taxon Kind: series
Associated Soils: DEERFIELD, WAREHAM

Location Information:
Country: USA
State: Massachusetts
County: Plymouth County
MLRA: 144A -- New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
Soil Survey Area: 023 Plymouth County
Map Unit: 37A Massasoit-Mashpee Complex
Quad Name: Snipatuit Pond
Location Description: 146 meters SW OF the M ATTAPOISETT RIVER 81 Meters North OF SNIPATUIT ROAD in the town of Rochester Ma.

Legal Description:
Latitude: 41 degrees 45 minutes 16.00 seconds north
Longitude: 70 degrees 51 minutes 48.00 seconds west
Datum: NAD 83
UTM Zone:19
UTM Easting: 344884 meters
UTM Northing: 4624250 meters

Physiographic Division: Apalachian highlands:
Physiographic Province: New England
Physiographic Section: Seaboard lowland
State Physiographic Area: Mattapoisett River Valley
Local Physiographic Area:
Geomorphic Setting: on shoulder of side slope of outwash plain on shoulder of side slope of mound
Upslope Shape: concave Cross Slope Shape: convex

Primary Earth Cover: Wetlands
Secondary Earth Cover:
Plant Association Name:
Existing Vegetation: Moss, red maple, spicebush

Parent Material: Fluvial.
Bedrock Kind:
Bedrock Depth:
Bedrock Hardness:
Bedrock Fracture Interval:

Surface Fragments: 0.0 percent
Particle Size Control Section:
Diagnostic Features: spodic horizon 0.0 to 0.0 in.

Slope: 2%
Elevation: 59 feet
Aspect: 90
Drainage: PD

PROFILE DESCRIPTION:

Oi--0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); peat; extremely acid, pH 4.0, ; abrupt wavy boundary.

Oe--3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); mucky peat; common fine and medium roots throughout; extremely acid, pH 4.2, ; abrupt wavy boundary.

A--10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) sandy loam; 5 percent spherical very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 5 percent spherical gray (10YR 6/1) mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common fine and medium roots throughout; 10 percent albic tongues (volume percent); very strongly acid, pH 4.6, ; abrupt smooth boundary.

E--20 to 25 centimeters (7.9 to 9.8 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) sand; irregular very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 5 percent irregular brown (10YR 4/3) mottles; very friable; common fine roots throughout; extremely acid, pH 4.2, ; clear wavy boundary.

Bhs--25 to 91 centimeters (9.8 to 35.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) loamy sand; 3 percent spherical dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) and 3 percent spherical dark reddish gray (2.5YR 3/1) mottles; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common fine roots throughout; 10 percent fine and medium spherical extremely weakly cemented dusky red (10R 3/2) iron-manganese concretions throughout; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, ; clear wavy boundary.

Bs--91 to 114 centimeters (35.8 to 44.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loamy sand; very friable; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, ; clear wavy boundary.

C--114 centimeters (44.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) loamy coarse sand; irregular very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and irregular dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) mottles; loose; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, .