USDA - NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE PEDON DESCRIPTION

Print Date: 12/17/2002
Description Date: 07/27/1999
Describer: Jim Turenne

Site ID: MA023-1999-22105-S
Site Note: 2322105
Pedon ID: MA023-1999-22105-P

Pedon Note: Backhoe pit for an on-site investigation, water table data available from town health agent. Site was disputed for ESWT depth, wells showed the watertables agreed with morphology and NOT relect mottles! Site was a hayfield but was soon to be converted to athletic and/or leach fields.

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

Pedon Type: Within range of map unit
Pedon Purpose: Full pedon description
Taxon Kind: Series
Associated Soils: Deerfield, Enosburg, Hinesburg

Location Information:
Country: USA
State: Massachusetts
County: Plymouth

MLRA: 144A -- New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
Soil Survey Area: MA023 -- Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Map Unit: 221A
Photo Number: 73-41 UMASS/DEP 93
Quad Name: Weymouth 15 minute

Location Description: County name: Plymouth
Quad: Weymouth-15 min, Cohasset 7.5 min
Location: Town of Norwell Massachusetts, Osborn Farm/Sparrell School Property. 50 meters south of route 123, 110 meters east of powerlines, west of JR. High School.

Legal Description:
Latitude: 42 degrees 9 minutes 25.00 seconds north
Longitude: 70 degrees 49 minutes 19 seconds west
Datum: NAD 83
UTM Zone:19
UTM Easting: 349466 meters
UTM Northing: 4668837 meters

Physiographic Division: Appalachian highlands
Physiographic Province: New England
Physiographic Section: Seabord Lowland
State Physiographic Area: South Coastal Watershed, Narragansett Basin
Local Physiographic Area:

Geomorphic Setting: glacial lake (relict)
Upslope Shape: Cross Slope Shape:
Primary Earth Cover:Grass/herbaceous cover
Secondary Earth Cover:
Plant Association Name:
Existing Vegetation: Alfalfa, Rye, Clover, Timothy

Parent Material: Eolian sand over glacial fluvial which overlies glacial lake floor deposits.
Bedrock Kind:
Bedrock Depth:
Bedrock Hardness:
Bedrock Fracture Interval:

Surface Fragments: 0 %
Particle Size Control Section:
Diagnostic Features:? to ? in.
Slope: 1 %
Elevation: 114 feet
Aspect: 90
Drainage: MWD

PROFILE DESCRIPTION:

Ap--0 to 41 centimeters (0.0 to 16.1 inches); dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3) loamy sand; very friable, noncemented, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 1 percent rounded 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; common fine and medium roots throughout, few medium and coarse roots throughout; abrupt smooth boundary.

Bw--41 to 69 centimeters (16.1 to 27.2 inches); (2.5Y 5/), loamy sand; very friable, noncemented, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 2 percent coarse cylindrical very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) worm casts with sharp boundaries in matrix; 1 percent rounded 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; few medium roots throughout; clear wavy boundary.

C1--69 to 91 centimeters (27.2 to 35.8 inches); sand, pale olive (5Y 6/4), dry; single grain; loose, loose, noncemented, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 2 percent fine prominent irregular extremely weakly cemented (10YR 5/), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 3 percent prominent irregular extremely weakly cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 5 percent medium distinct irregular extremely weakly cemented light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout; 3 percent rounded 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; common very fine roots throughout; abrupt wavy boundary.

2C1--91 to 173 centimeters (35.8 to 68.1 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) silt loam; weak fine platy structure, and weak medium platy structure; firm, hard, noncemented, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 5 percent coarse distinct irregular extremely weakly cemented light gray (5Y 7/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout and 10 percent coarse prominent irregular extremely weakly cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; few fine roots in cracks; clear wavy boundary.

2C2--173 to 191 centimeters (68.1 to 75.2 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) silt loam; weak medium platy structure, and weak fine platy structure; friable, slightly hard, noncemented, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 5 percent medium prominent platy extremely weakly cemented (10YR 5/), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in cracks and 10 percent coarse distinct platy extremely weakly cemented light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in cracks; 1 percent spherical very weakly cemented dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3), moist, with sharp boundaries in matrix.

NOTES: Silty deposits continue to 11 feet then gravelly cos material, possibly coastal plain sediments.