USDA - NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE PEDON DESCRIPTION

Print Date: 12/17/2002
Description Date: 12/12/1995
Describer: J. TURENNE

Site ID: MA023-1995-010-S
Site Note: Backhoe Pit for Workshop

NASIS Pedon ID: MA023-1995-010-P
COUNTY ID: 2332004
Pedon Note:
Lab Source ID: Lab Pedon #: 233204

Soil Name as Described/Sampled: BIRCHWOOD
Soil Name as Correlated:
Classification:
Pedon Type: within range of map unit
Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
Taxon Kind: series
Associated Soils: DEERFIELD, MATTAPOISETT, MERRIMAC, POQUONOCK, SCITUATE

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: 320 A
Quad Name: Plympton
Location Description: 800' SOUTH OF PLYMOUTH ST., 1700' WEST OF SHORT STREET IN THE TOWN OF MIDDLEBORO.

Legal Description:
Latitude: 41 degrees 54 minutes 23.00 seconds north
Longitude: 70 degrees 52 minutes 20.00 seconds west
Datum:
UTM Zone:19
UTM Easting: 344720 meters
UTM Northing: 464082 meters

Physiographic Division: Apalachian highlands:
Physiographic Province: New England
Physiographic Section: Seaboard lowland
State Physiographic Area:
Local Physiographic Area:
Geomorphic Setting: ground moraine, upland
Upslope Shape: Cross Slope Shape:
Primary Earth Cover:
Secondary Earth Cover:
Plant Association Name:
Existing Vegetation:
Parent Material:
Bedrock Kind:
Bedrock Depth:
Bedrock Hardness:
Bedrock Fracture Interval:

Surface Fragments: 1.0 percent
Particle Size Control Section:
Diagnostic Features:? to ? in.
Slope: 4%
Elevation: 135 feet
Aspect: 360
Drainage: MWD

PROFILE DESCRIPTION:

Oi--8 to 5 centimeters (3.1 to 2.0 inches); peat; clear wavy boundary.

Oe--5 to 0 centimeters (2.0 to 0.0 inches); mucky peat; abrupt smooth boundary.

Ap--0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine and fine roots and common medium and coarse roots; 1 percent subrounded 75- to 250-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments and 5 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.

Bw1--20 to 61 centimeters (7.9 to 24.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) sandy loam; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common fine and medium roots and common coarse roots and common very fine roots; 1 percent subangular 250- to 600-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments and 3 percent subangular 75- to 250-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments and 10 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments; clear wavy boundary.

Bw2--61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loamy sand; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common fine and medium roots and common very fine roots; 1 percent subangular 75- to 250-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments and 7 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments; clear wavy boundary.

Bw3--91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sand; 1 percent fine and medium distinct irregular light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and 3 percent medium and coarse distinct cylindrical strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) mottles; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; common fine roots and common very fine roots; 1 percent subangular 75- to 250-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments and 10 percent subangular 2- to 75-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.

C1--152 to 157 centimeters (59.8 to 61.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) sand; 3 percent fine and medium distinct irregular brown (10YR 5/3) mottles; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine and fine roots; 5 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.

2Cd--157 to 191 centimeters (61.8 to 75.2 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) gravelly silt loam; weak fine and medium platy structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; discontinuous distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, silt coats on upper surfaces of peds or rocks; 8 percent subrounded 2- to 150- millimeter shale-siltstone fragments and 10 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments.