USDA - NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE PEDON DESCRIPTION

Print Date: 12/17/2002
Description Date: 10/03/1995
Describer: J. TURENNE

Site ID: MA023-1995-014-S
Site Note:
NASIS Pedon ID: MA023-1995-014-P
COUNTY ID: 2332306
Pedon Note:

Soil Name as Described/Sampled: POQUONOCK
Soil Name as Correlated:
Classification:
Pedon Type: Modal pedon for map unit
Pedon Purpose: Full pedon description
Taxon Kind: Series
Associated Soils: BIRCHWOOD, CANTON, MONTAUK, PLYMOUTH

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: 323B
Quad Name: Marion
Location Description: SUMMIT OF TINKHAM HILL, E. OF LANDFILL, 50'N OF LOGGING ROAD TO TOWSERS SWAMP.

Legal Description:
Latitude: 41 degrees 50 minutes 45.00 seconds north
Longitude: 70 degrees 49 minutes 20.00 seconds west
Datum: NAD 83
UTM Zone:19
UTM Easting: 0348420 meters
UTM Northing: 4617568 meters

Physiographic Division: Apalachian highlands:
Physiographic Province: New England
Physiographic Section: Seaboard lowland
State Physiographic Area:
Local Physiographic Area:
Geomorphic Setting: On summit of head slope of drumlin,on summit of head slope of upland
Upslope Shape: Convex Cross Slope Shape:
Primary Earth Cover: Tree
Secondary Earth Cover: Shrub
Plant Association Name:
Existing Vegetation: Birch, Huckleberry

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

Surface Fragments: 1.0 percent
Particle Size Control Section:
Diagnostic Features:? to ? in.

Slope: 5%
Elevation: 89 feet
Aspect: 90
Drainage: Well

PROFILE DESCRIPTION:

Oi--13 to 8 centimeters (5.1 to 3.1 inches); peat; abrupt wavy boundary.

Oe--8 to 0 centimeters (3.1 to 0.0 inches); dark reddish gray (2.5YR 3/1) mucky peat; abrupt wavy boundary.

A--0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) stony loamy sand; massive; very friable; common very fine and fine roots throughout and common medium and coarse roots throughout; 5 percent subangular 75- to 250-millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent subangular 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent subangular 250- to 600-millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, Bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary.

E--5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) stony sand; single grain; loose; common very fine and fine roots throughout and common medium and coarse roots throughout; 5 percent subangular 75- to 250-millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent subangular 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent subangular 250- to 600-millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, Bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary.

Bhs--10 to 15 centimeters (3.9 to 5.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) stony loamy sand; massive; friable; common coarse roots throughout and common very fine to medium roots throughout; 5 percent subangular 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent subangular 75- to 250-millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent subangular 250- to 600-millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, Bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary.

Bw1--15 to 61 centimeters (5.9 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) stony loamy sand; massive; friable; common very fine and fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout; 5 percent subangular 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent subangular 75- to 250-millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent subangular 250- to 600-millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, Bromthymol blue; MOTTLES IN Bw1 AND 2cd ARE AT THE B/C INTERFACE.; gradual wavy boundary.

Bw2--61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) stony loamy sand; 2 percent fine and medium distinct pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) and 5 percent medium and coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) mottles; massive; friable; common fine and medium roots throughout and common very fine roots throughout; 5 percent subangular 250- to 600-millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent subangular 600-millimeter unspecified fragments and 6 percent subangular 75- to 250-millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, Bromcresol green; abrupt irregular boundary.

2Cd--84 to 191 centimeters (33.1 to 75.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) gravelly sandy loam; weak medium and coarse platy structure; very firm; common very fine and fine roots around fragments; common very fine and fine low-continuity vesicular pores; 1 percent fine cylindrical extremely weakly cemented dark reddish gray (10R 3/1) iron-manganese concretions around rock fragments; 3 percent subangular 250- to 600-millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent subangular 75- to 250- millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent subangular 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, Bromcresol green; MOTTLES IN Bw1 AND 2cd ARE AT THE B/C INTERFACE..