USDA - NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE PEDON DESCRIPTION

Print Date: 12/17/2002
Description Date: 01/08/1997
Describer: Meredith Slater & Brian Parks

Site ID: MA023-1997-42102-S
Site Note: Disturbed area, topsoil removed, abandoned pit. Water in pit at 6 feet, mixed-igneous-metamorphic & sedimentary rocks, boulders in sub.
Pedon ID: MA023-1997-42102-P
Pedon Note: 2342102
Lab Source ID: Lab Pedon #:
Soil Name as Described/Sampled: Canton
Soil Name as Correlated:

Classification:

Pedon Type: Modal pedon for map unit
Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
Taxon Kind: series
Associated Soils: Gloucester, Poquonock
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: 421B
Quad Name: Snipatuit Pond
Location Description: Plymouth County, MA, Quad: Snipatuit Pond, Ma Quad, 1977 Rochester, old gravel pits N of High St., SE of powerlines, NW of large bog. Directly on gravel pit symbol on topo.

Legal Description: Latitude: 41 degrees 47 minutes 1.00 seconds North, Longitude: 70 degrees 47 minutes 25.00 seconds West.
Datum: NAD 83
UTM Zone:19
UTM Easting: 351175 meters
UTM Northing: 4627080 meters

Physiographic Division: Appalachian Highlands
Physiographic Province: New England Province
Physiographic Section: Seaboard Lowland Section
State Physiographic Area: Buzzards Bay
Local Physiographic Area:

Geomorphic Setting: Ground moraine.
Upslope Shape: Cross Slope Shape:
Primary Earth Cover:Tree cover
Secondary Earth Cover:
Plant Association Name:
Existing Vegetation: Eastern white pine, northern red oak

Parent Material: Eolian sandy loam overlying sandy ablation till.

Surface Fragments: very stony.
Particle Size Control Section:
Diagnostic Features:? to ? in.
Slope
Elevation: 68 feet
Aspect
Drainage: WD

A--0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) sandy loam; friable; medium vesicular and medium tubular pores; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter 1:1 water; common very fine to coarse roots throughout; abrupt broken boundary.

Bw1--3 to 23 centimeters (1.2 to 9.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sandy loam; friable; medium vesicular and medium tubular pores; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter 1:1 water; common very fine to coarse roots throughout; clear wavy boundary.

Bw2--23 to 56 centimeters (9.1 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; very friable; medium vesicular and medium tubular pores; 3 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter 1:1 water; common very fine to medium roots throughout; clear wavy boundary.

BC--56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) gravelly loamy sand; loose; medium tubular and coarse tubular pores; 15 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter 1:1 water; common very fine and fine roots throughout, few medium roots throughout; gradual wavy boundary.

C1--76 to 160 centimeters (29.9 to 63.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) gravelly loamy sand; loose; coarse tubular pores; 7 percent subrounded 75- to 250-millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter 1:1 water; few very fine roots throughout; gradual wavy boundary.

C2--160 to 183 centimeters (63.0 to 72.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) gravelly loamy coarse sand; loose; coarse tubular pores; 3 percent 251- to 600-millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent 76- to 250-millimeter unspecified fragments and 12 percent 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter 1:1 water.