USDA - NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE PEDON DESCRIPTION

Print Date: 12/17/2002
Description Date: 11/19/1997
Describer: Jim Turenne

Site ID: MA023-1997-22106-S
Site Note: 2322106
Pedon ID: MA023-1997-22106-P

Pedon Note: Depth to discontinuity too deep for series, within range of map unit. Backhoe pit for Title V workshop. Conditions > 72 inches consist of layers of mottled cos 6-10 inches underlain by a continuous deposit of SIL. Water table weeping at 63 inches, ESWT = 36 inches based on redox features.

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: Carver, Deerfield, Enosburg, Hinckley, Raynham, Scio, Sudbury, Walpole, Windsor

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: 221B
Quad Name: Bridgewater
Photo: 79-22 UMASS/DEP 93
Location Description: County Name: Plymouth
Quadrangle Name: Bridgewater
Location: 140 meters east of Conant St., 445 meters northwest of Ice Pond, 560 meters west of RR tracks, 690 meters south of Flag St. in the town of Bridgewater Massachusetts.

Legal Description:
Latitude: 41 degrees 57 minutes 46.98 seconds north
Longitude: 70 degrees 57 minutes 34 seconds west
Datum: NAD 83
UTM Zone:19
UTM Easting: 337618 meters
UTM Northing: 4647540 meters

Physiographic Division: Appalachian highlands
Physiographic Province: New England province
Physiographic Section: Seaboard Lowland
State Physiographic Area: Taunton River Basin, Narragansett Basin, Glacial lake Taunton.
Local Physiographic Area: Kame delta of glacial lake Taunton.

Geomorphic Setting: On side slope of outwash fan
Upslope Shape: linear Cross Slope Shape: concave
Primary Earth Cover:Tree cover
Secondary Earth Cover:
Plant Association Name:
Existing Vegetation: Eastern white pine stand.

Parent Material: Eolian sand, underlain by glacial fluvial which is underlain by lake floor silts.
Bedrock Kind:
Bedrock Depth:
Bedrock Hardness:
Bedrock Fracture Interval:

Surface Fragments: 0.0%
Particle Size Control Section:
Diagnostic Features: ochric epipedon 2 to 13 in. Cambic horizon13 to 26 in. Abrupt textural change 47 to 72 in.

Slope: 7%
Elevation: 50 feet
Aspect: 120
Drainage: MWD, ESTWT @ 36 inches.

PROFILE DESCRIPTION:

Oe--0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dusky red (2.5YR 3/2) interior and very dusky red (2.5YR 2.5/2) rubbed moderately decomposed plant material; nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; clear wavy boundary.

A--5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); 85 percent black (7.5YR 2.5/1) interior and 15 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) interior loamy sand; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, Chlorophenol red; many very fine and fine roots throughout; clear wavy boundary.

Ap--10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) loamy sand; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 1 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, Chlorophenol red; few coarse roots throughout, many very fine to medium roots throughout; abrupt smooth boundary.

Bw1--33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) loamy sand; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 2 percent fine cylindrical very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, worm casts with sharp boundaries in matrix; 1 percent subrounded 2 to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, Chlorophenol red; common very fine roots throughout, few medium roots throughout; clear wavy boundary.

Bw2--48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loamy sand; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 1 percent medium cylindrical very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, worm casts with sharp boundaries in matrix; 1 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, Chlorophenol red; few fine roots throughout, common very fine roots throughout; clear wavy boundary.

C1--66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; strongly acid, pH 5.1, Chlorophenol red; few fine roots throughout, common very fine roots throughout; clear wavy boundary.

C2--91 to 119 centimeters (35.8 to 46.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 1 percent fine prominent irregular very weakly cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries throughout and 10 percent faint irregular extremely weakly cemented light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries throughout; strongly acid, pH 5.2, Chlorophenol red; few very fine roots throughout; abrupt smooth boundary.

2C1--119 to 150 centimeters (46.9 to 59.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) loamy very fine sand; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 25 percent coarse prominent irregular extremely weakly cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 25 percent coarse faint irregular extremely weakly cemented light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries throughout; strongly acid, pH 5.3, Chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.

2C2--150 to 183 centimeters (59.1 to 72.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) stratified very fine sandy loam to loamy fine sand; weak fine platy structure, and weak medium platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 1 percent medium prominent irregular very weakly cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries throughout and 10 percent coarse prominent irregular extremely weakly cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; strongly acid, pH 5.3, Chlorophenol red.