USDA - NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE PEDON DESCRIPTION
Print Date: 12/17/2002
Description Date: 05/01/1995
Describer: JIM TURENNE

Site ID: MA023-1995-003-S
Site Note: Backhoe pit for workshop.
NASIS Pedon ID: MA023-1995-003-P
COUNTY ID: 2332304

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

Location Information:
Country: USA
State: Massachusetts
County: Plymouth County
MLRA: 149B -- Long Island-Cape Cod Coastal Lowland
Soil Survey Area: MA023 -- Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Map Unit: 323B
Quad Name: Marion
Location Description: 300' SOUTH OF OAKDALE AVENUE (26 OAKDALE), 600' WEST OF HAMMETT COVE - LITTLE NECK IN THE TOWN OF MARION.

Legal Description:
Latitude: 41 degrees 43 minutes 3.10 seconds north
Longitude: 70 degrees 45 minutes 37.50 seconds west
Datum: NAD 83
UTM Zone:19
UTM Easting: 353507 meters
UTM Northing: 4619952 meters

Physiographic Division: Atlantic Lowland
Physiographic Province: Coastal Plain
Physiographic Section: Embayed Section
State Physiographic Area: Buzzards Bay Watershed
Local Physiographic Area:
Geomorphic Setting: on summit of ground moraine, on summit of upland
Upslope Shape: Cross Slope Shape:
Primary Earth Cover: Tree
Secondary Earth Cover:
Plant Association Name:
Existing Vegetation: W. Pine

Parent Material: Eolian sand underlain by dense till.
Bedrock Kind:
Bedrock Depth:
Bedrock Hardness:
Bedrock Fracture Interval:

Surface Fragments: 0.1 percent
Particle Size Control Section:
Diagnostic Features:? to ? in.

Slope: 4%
Elevation: 20 feet
Aspect: 90
Drainage: Well

PROFILE DESCRIPTION

Oi--0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); peat; clear wavy boundary.

Oe--1 to 4 centimeters (0.4 to 1.6 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) mucky peat; abrupt wavy boundary.

Oa--4 to 5 centimeters (1.6 to 2.0 inches); black (7.5YR 2/1) muck; extremely acid, pH 4.4, Bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary.

AE--5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); 95 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 5 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) loamy sand; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common fine and medium roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout and common very fine roots throughout; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, Bromcresol green; abrupt smooth boundary.

Bw1--15 to 58 centimeters (5.9 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) loamy sand; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common fine and medium roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout and common very fine roots throughout; 3 percent subangular 75- to 250-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments and 5 percent subangular 2- to 75-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, Chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.

Bw2--58 to 99 centimeters (22.8 to 39.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) loamy sand; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine and fine roots throughout; 5 percent subangular 75-to 250-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments and 5 percent subangular 2- to 75-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, Chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.

2C1--99 to 117 centimeters (39.0 to 46.1 inches); 75 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) and 25 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) sandy loam, loamy sand; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout; 5 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; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, Chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.

2Cd--117 to 183 centimeters (46.1 to 72.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) gravelly fine sandy loam; 5 percent medium and coarse distinct irregular brown (10YR 5/3) and 10 percent medium and coarse prominent irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) mottles; very firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; very fine and fine moderate-continuity vesicular pores; patchy distinct silt coats on upper surfaces of peds or rocks; 2 percent fine irregular extremely weakly cemented dark reddish gray (10R 3/1) iron-manganese concretions around rock fragments; 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 15 percent subangular 2- to 75-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, Chlorophenol red.