USDA - NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE PEDON DESCRIPTION

Print Date: 12/17/2002
Description Date: 09/01/1995
Describer: MEREDITH SLATER DAN WILLIAMS

Site ID: MA023-1995-012-S
Site Note:
NASIS Pedon ID: MA023-1995-012-P
COUNTY ID: 2325403
Pedon Note:

Soil Name as Described/Sampled: MERRIMAC
Soil Name as Correlated:
Classification:
Pedon Type: Typical pedon for series
Pedon Purpose: Full pedon description
Taxon Kind: Series
Associated Soils: CARVER, DEERFIELD, HINCKLEY

Location Information:
Country: USA
State: Massachusetts
County: Plymouth County
MLRA: 144A -- New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
Soil Survey Area: MA023 -- Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Map Unit: 254B
Quad Name: Marion
Location Description: NW 1/4 OF MARION QUAD, ALONG TRANSECT 2000' W OF WENDALL ROAD, 3300' N OF ROUNSEVILLE ROAD. ROCHESTER, MA

Legal Description:
Latitude: 41 degrees 44 minutes 50.00 seconds north
Longitude: 70 degrees 50 minutes 27.00 seconds west
Datum: NAD 83
UTM Zone:19
UTM Easting: 0347360 meters
UTM Northing: 4623551 meters

Physiographic Division: Apalachian highlands:
Physiographic Province: New England
Physiographic Section: Seaboard lowland
State Physiographic Area: Mattapoisett River Valley
Local Physiographic Area:
Geomorphic Setting: outwash plain, leveled land
Upslope Shape: concave Cross Slope Shape: concave

Primary Earth Cover: Tree
Secondary Earth Cover: Shrub
Plant Association Name:
Existing Vegetation: Huckleberry, scrub oak

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

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

Slope: 1%
Elevation: 59 feet
Aspect: 1800
Drainage: Well

PROFILE DESCRIPTION:

Oi--0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); peat; extremely acid, pH 4.4, ; abrupt wavy boundary.

Oe--3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2.0 inches); mucky peat; common fine and medium roots throughout; extremely acid, pH 4.4, ; abrupt wavy boundary.

A--5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) sandy loam; massive; loose; common fine and medium roots throughout; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, ; abrupt wavy boundary.

E--8 to 11 centimeters (3.1 to 4.3 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loamy sand; massive; loose; common fine roots throughout; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, ; abrupt wavy boundary.

Bw1--11 to 50 centimeters (4.3 to 19.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) sandy loam; massive; loose; common fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, ; clear wavy boundary.

Bw2--50 to 79 centimeters (19.7 to 31.1 inches); olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) loamy sand; massive; loose; common fine roots throughout; 5 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, ; gradual wavy boundary.

C1--79 to 109 centimeters (31.1 to 42.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loamy coarse sand; massive; loose; 10 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, ; gradual wavy boundary.

C2--109 centimeters (42.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) coarse sand; massive; loose; 12 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0.