USDA - NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE PEDON DESCRIPTION

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

Site ID: MA023-1995-004-S
Site Note:
NASIS Pedon ID: MA023-1995-004-P
COUNTY ID: 2306904
Pedon Note:

Soil Name as Described/Sampled: MATTAPOISETT
Soil Name as Correlated:
Classification:
Pedon Type: within range of series
Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
Taxon Kind: series
Associated Soils: BROCTON, NORWELL, SIPPICAN

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: 069A
Quad Name: Marion
Location Description: TOWN OF ROCHESTER, MA, 500 FEET W OF VAUGHAN HILL ROAD, 700 FEET S OF SNIPATUIT ROAD, 900 FEET N OF ROUNSEVILLE ROAD.

Legal Description:
Latitude: 41 degrees 44 minutes 34.00 seconds
Longitude: 70 degrees 51 minutes 50.00 seconds west
Datum: NAD 83
UTM Zone:19
UTM Easting: 346175 meters
UTM Northing: 4622924 meters

Physiographic Division: Appalachian highlands:
Physiographic Province: New England
Physiographic Section: Seaboard lowland
State Physiographic Area: Buzzards Bay Watershed
Local Physiographic Area:

Geomorphic Setting: ground moraine, upland mound
Upslope Shape: concave Cross Slope Shape: convex
Primary Earth Cover: Wetlands
Secondary Earth Cover:
Plant Association Name:
Existing Vegetation:

Parent Material: Dense till.
Bedrock Kind:
Bedrock Depth:
Bedrock Hardness:
Bedrock Fracture Interval:

Surface Fragments: 5.0 percent
Particle Size Control Section:
Diagnostic Features: cambic horizon 0.0 to 0.0 in.

Slope: 1%
Elevation: 59 feet
Aspect:
Drainage: Poorly

PROFILE DESCRIPTION:

Oi--0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); peat; strongly acid, pH 5.2, Hellige-Truog; abrupt wavy boundary.

Oe--1 to 5 centimeters (0.4 to 2.0 inches); partially decomposed organic matter; strongly acid, pH 5.4, Hellige-Truog; abrupt wavy boundary.

Ap--5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) sandy loam; massive; very friable; common fine and medium roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout; 5 percent subangular 75-to 250-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, clear wavy boundary.

BC--25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) coarse sand; massive; loose; common fine roots throughout; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, Hellige-Truog; clear wavy boundary.

C--38 to 94 centimeters (15.0 to 37.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) coarse sand; 3 percent medium prominent spherical yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 3 percent medium faint spherical light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and 3 percent medium prominent spherical yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) mottles; massive; loose; 3 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, Hellige-Truog; STONES IN LOWER C - 20%.;clear wavy boundary.

2C--94 to 107 centimeters (37.0 to 42.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) sandy loam; 2 percent medium distinct irregular gray (2.5Y 6/1) and 5 percent medium distinct irregular light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) mottles; massive; friable; many medium moderate-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 5 percent subangular 2- to 75-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, Hellige-Truog; abrupt wavy boundary.

2Cd--107 centimeters (42.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) stony sandy loam; 5 percent medium distinct irregular gray (2.5Y 6/1) and 5 percent medium distinct irregular light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) mottles; massive; firm; many fine and medium moderate-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 5 percent subangular 2- to 75-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments and 20 percent subangular 250- to 600-millimeter granite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, Hellige-Truog.