USDA - Soil Conservation Service
Pedon Narrative Description
DATE Sampled: 07/12/1990

Soil Series: PITTSTOWN

Map Unit Name: Pittstown loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes

Component Name: Pittstown

Site Identification #: 90MA023060

Map Unit Symbol: 345B Note ID: Yield ID:

Laboratory Information

Lab Pedon #: 2334502 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 0.8 miles northeast of the guardhouse at the entrance to Worlds End Reservation, near the summit of a drumlin in the town of Hingham, MA.

Quadrangle Name:

Latitude: 42 degrees 16 minutes 9.0 seconds N

Longitude: 70 degrees 52 minutes 49.0 seconds W

UTM Zone: UTM Easting: UTM Northing:

Photograph #: 6969D

Description Category: Full pedon description

Pedon Category: Typical pedon for series

Slope Characteristics Information
Slope: 6 percent
Aspect: 180 degrees
Horizontal Shape: Concave

Elevation: 78.0 feet

Physiography:
Local: Drumlin
Major: Glaciated Upland *

Classification: ____ , ____ , ____ , ____ , ____ ____

Landuse: Pasture land and native pasture
Stoniness: 0.00 percent

Parent Material: Weathered glacial till from mixed-igneous-metamorphic & sedimentary

Vegetative Information
Plant Name: pasture grasses

Described by: Judy Bartos, Pati Pray, Peter C. Fletcher

Notes: Weather-overcast and rain.

Ap-- 0 to 9 inches; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; friable; common very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.3 LaMotte-Morgan; 10 percent subangular mixed gravel and 2 percent subangular mixed cobbles; abrupt smooth boundary. Channers - dark mineralogy

Bw1-- 9 to 14 inches; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common very fine roots throughout; 5.3 LaMotte-Morgan; 10 percent subangular mixed gravel and 2 percent subangular mixed cobbles and 1 percent subangular mixed stones; clear wavy boundary. Common worm channels - 10YR 3/2; channers - dark mineralogy.

Bw2--14 to 19 inches; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common very fine roots throughout; 5.4 LaMotte-Morgan; 10 percent subangular mixed gravel and 2 percent subangular mixed cobbles and 1 percent subangular mixed stones; clear wavy boundary. Channers - dark mineralogy

Bc--19 to 21 inches; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) gravelly loam; few fine distinct gray (10YR 6/1) and common fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) mottles; weak medium and coarse platy structure; friable, slightly sticky and slightly plastic; common very fine roots throughout; 5.8 LaMotte-Morgan; 5 percent subangular mixed gravel and 2 percent subangular mixed cobbles and 1 percent subangular mixed stones; abrupt wavy boundary. Channers - dark mineralogy

Cd1--21 to 33 inches; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; common fine and medium faint light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), common fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), and few fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6) mottles; weak medium and coarse platy structure; firm, slightly sticky and slightly plastic; 5.8 LaMotte-Morgan; 10 percent subangular mixed gravel and 1 percent subangular mixed cobbles and 1 percent subangular mixed stones; clear wavy boundary. Manganese stains (few) 5YR 2.5/1; possible silt loam; channers - dark mineralogy.

Cd2--33 to 48 inches; light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) gravelly loam; common medium and coarse faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) and common fine and medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6) mottles; weak medium and coarse platy structure; firm, slightly sticky and slightly plastic; 5.9 LaMotte-Morgan; 5 percent subangular mixed gravel and 1 percent subangular mixed cobbles and 1 percent subangular mixed stones. possible silt loam; manganese stains (few) 5YR 2.5/1; channers - dark mineralogy.