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USDA - Soil Conservation Service Soil Series: PITTSTOWN Map Unit Name: Pittstown loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes Component Name: Pittstown Site Identification #: 90MA023059 Map Unit Symbol: 345B Note ID: Yield ID: Laboratory Information Lab Pedon #: 2334501 Source Lab Id: Location Information Soil Survey Area #: 023 MLRA: 144A County FIPS Code: County Name: Plymouth County, Massachusetts Soil Survey Area Name: Plymouth County, Massachusetts Location Description: Approximately 1900 feet northeast of the guard house at the entrance to World's End Reservation, near the summit of Planters Hill in the town of Hingham, MA. Quadrangle Name: Hull Latitude: 42 degrees 16 minutes 9.0 seconds N Longitude: 70 degrees 52 minutes 48.0 seconds W UTM Zone: UTM Easting: UTM Northing: Photograph #: 6969D Description Category: Full pedon description Pedon Category: Typical pedon for series Slope Characteristics Information Elevation: 93.0 feet Physiography: Microrelief: Classification: ____ , ____ , ____ , ____ , ____ ____ Landuse: Pasture land and native pasture Natural Drainage Class: MWD Parent Material: Weathered glacial till from metamorphic & sedimentary. Vegetative Information Described by: P. C. Fletcher Notes: Weather - Sunny 50's F., wet seeps observed between plates in Cd, no standing water accumulated.
Ap-- 0 to 9 inches; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) dry; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout; 5.2 LaMotte-Morgan; 10 percent subangular mixed gravel and 2 percent subangular mixed cobbles; abrupt wavy boundary. Shape - mostly subangular 25% dark-flat.
Bw1-- 9 to 13 inches; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout; 5.4 LaMotte-Morgan; 10 percent subangular mixed gravel and 2 percent subangular mixed cobbles and 2 percent subangular mixed stones; clear wavy boundary. Verticle worm channels -15% of surface, color 10YR 3/2; shape-mostly subangular; 25% dark-flat.
Bw2--13 to 18 inches; olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout; 5.6 LaMotte-Morgan; 10 percent subangular mixed gravel and 2 percent subangular mixed cobbles and 2 percent subangular mixed stones; clear wavy boundary. Worm channels 5% of surface; shape-mostly subangular, 25% dark-flat.
Bw3--18 to 21 inches; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; few fine distinct gray (10YR 6/1) and common fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) mottles; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout; 5.6 LaMotte-Morgan; 10 percent subangular mixed gravel and 2 percent subangular mixed cobbles and 2 percent subangular mixed stones; clear wavy boundary. Manganese stains (few) 5YR 2.5/1; shape-mostly subangular, 25% dark-flat.
Cd--21 to 48 inches; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) gravelly clay loam; common fine and medium faint light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and common fine and medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6) mottles; moderate medium and coarse platy structure; very friable, slightly sticky and slightly plastic; 5.6 LaMotte-Morgan; 10 percent subangular mixed gravel and 5 percent subangular mixed cobbles and 2 percent subangular mixed stones. Water seeping into hole along ped faces; few clay and silt films were observed on ped faces within the Bw2, Bw3, and Cd horizons; deep verticle cracks were observed in escarpments along the sea; manganese stains (few) 5YR 3/1; shape-mostly subangular, 25% dark-flat. |
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