USDA - NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE PEDON DESCRIPTION

Print Date: 12/17/2002
Description Date: 06/12/2000
Describer: Tunstead/Turenne

Site ID: MA023-2000-32108-S
Site Note: Excavator pit for a workshop, 2 pits in area both good Birchwood series. Perc Rate = 8 min/in. Site is being developed for houses. Excavated to 9 feet, below 70 in. hit lenses 1-2 in thick of cos, water rapidly moving in from sand lenses. Olive colored dense till taken from bottom of pit (3Cd). Numerous boulders in surface. Water table at 60 inches, ESWT = 22 inches based on redox, perched water table.

NASIS Pedon ID: MA023-2000-32108-P | COUNTY ID: 2332108
Pedon Note: Area mapped- Essex in 1969 report. Depth to till below 40"; all rock fragments, categorized as mixed-igneous-metamorphic, and sedimentary

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: Mattapoisett- concave/drainage, Poquonock-convex slopes

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: 321A
Quad Name: Hanover
Location Description: Town of Pembroke, 115 M east of Pelham, 600 M S. of Birch St.
Legal Description:
Latitude: 42 degrees 1 minutes 47.68 seconds north
Longitude: 70 degrees 46 minutes 50.13 seconds west
Datum: NAD 83
UTM Zone:19
UTM Easting: 352602 meters
UTM Northing: 4654631 meters

Physiographic Division: Apalachian highlands:
Physiographic Province: New England
Physiographic Section: Seaboard lowland
State Physiographic Area:
Local Physiographic Area:
Geomorphic Setting: Uland, ground moraine
Upslope Shape: Linear
Cross Slope Shape: Convex

Primary Earth Cover: Tree cover
Secondary Earth Cover: Native shrubs
Plant Association Name:
Existing Vegetation: Eastern white pine, northern red oak, viburnum, huckleberry, red maple, American witchhazel, lowbush blueberry, western brackenfern, sassafras

Parent Material: Eolian sand over sandy ablation till which is underlain by dense till.
Bedrock Kind:
Bedrock Depth:
Bedrock Hardness:
Bedrock Fracture Interval:

Surface Fragments: 0.1 to 3 %
Particle Size Control Section:
Diagnostic Features:? to ? in.
Slope: 1%
Elevation: 100 feet
Aspect: 240
Drainage: MWD

PROFILE DESCRIPTION:

Oi--0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; low excavation difficulty; many very fine to coarse roots throughout; clear wavy boundary.

Oe--1 to 5 centimeters (0.4 to 2.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; low excavation difficulty; many very fine to coarse roots throughout; abrupt wavy boundary.

AE--5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); 90 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and 10 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) stony loamy sand; weak granular structure, and ; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 1 percent subangular 76- to 250-millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent subangular 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent subangular 251- to 600-millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, Chlorophenol red; many very fine to coarse roots throughout; clear wavy boundary.

E--10 to 15 centimeters (3.9 to 5.9 inches); 95 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 5 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) stony loamy sand; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 5 percent subangular 251- to 600-millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent subangular 76- to 250-millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent subangular 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, Chlorophenol red; many very fine to coarse roots throughout; clear wavy boundary.

Bhs--15 to 20 centimeters (5.9 to 7.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) stony sandy loam; subangular blocky; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 5 percent subangular 251- to 600-millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent subangular 76- to 250- millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent subangular 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, Chlorophenol red; many very fine to coarse roots throughout; clear wavy boundary.

Bw1--20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) loamy sand; subangular blocky; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 5 percent subangular 251- to 600-millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent subangular 76- to 250-millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent subangular 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, Chlorophenol red; common very fine to coarse roots throughout; gradual wavy boundary.

C1--46 to 112 centimeters (18.1 to 44.1 inches); 75 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and 25 percent (2.5Y 6/), gravelly loamy coarse sand, sandy loam; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 1 percent fine prominent irregular very dusky red (2.5YR 2.5/2), moist, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries around rock fragments and 1 percent fine prominent irregular brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 10 percent prominent irregular yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; 2 percent subangular 76- to 250-millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent subangular 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, Chlorophenol red; common very fine and fine roots throughout; gradual wavy boundary.

2Cd1--112 to 165 centimeters (44.1 to 65.0 inches); 75 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) and 25 percent pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) gravelly fine sandy loam, loamy fine sand; massive; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; high excavation difficulty; fine prominent irregular very dusky red (2.5YR 2.5/2), moist, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries around rock fragments; 5 percent subangular 76-to 250-millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent subangular 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, Chlorophenol red. SEE PEDON NOTES FORE INFO BELOW 65 INCHES.