Pedon Description Report

Barnstable Soil Pedon Description 2343004

Print Date:

03/17/2003

Description Date:

05/31/2001

Describer:

Rob Tunstead

Site ID:

MA023-2001-43004-Barnstable-S

Site Notes:

Pedon ID:

MA023-2001-43004-Barnstable-P

Pedon Notes:

Lab Source ID:

Lab Pedon #:

Soil Name as Described/Sampled:	Barnstable
Soil Name as Correlated:
Classification:	Coarse-loamy, mixed, subactive, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts

Pedon Type:

map unit inclusion

Pedon Purpose:

full pedon description

Taxon Kind:

series

Associated Soils:

Montauk, Newfields, Plymouth, Poquonock

Location Information

Country:

USA

State:

Massachusetts

County:

PLYMOUTH

MLRA:

149B -- Long Island-Cape Cod Coastal Lowland

Soil Survey Area:

MA023 -- Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Map Unit:

430B -- Barnstable sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes

Quad Name:

Marion, Massachusetts

Location Description:

Nasketucket Bay State Reservation

Legal Description:

Latitude:

41 degrees 38 minutes 6.85 seconds north

Longitude:

70 degrees 50 minutes 34.94 seconds west

Datum:

NAD83

UTM Zone:

UTM Easting:

346489 meters

UTM Northing:

4610919 meters

Physiographic Division:

Appalachian Highlands

Physiographic Province:

New England Province

Physiographic Section:

Seaboard lowland section

State Physiographic Area:

Local Physiographic Area:

Nasketucket Bay State Reservation

Geomorphic Setting:

shoulder of nose slope of ground moraine on upland

Upslope Shape:

convex

Cross Slope Shape:

convex

Primary Earth Cover:

grass/herbaceous cover

Secondary Earth Cover:

other grass/herbaceous cover

Existing Vegetation:

Parent Material:

eolian deposits over ablation till

Bedrock Kind:

Bedrock Depth:

Bedrock Hardness:

Bedrock Fracture Interval:

Surface Fragments:

Particle Size Control Section:

25 to 100 cm.

Diagnostic Features:

ochric epipedon	0 to 23 cm.
cambic horizon	23 to 51 cm.

Restrictions

Top Depth (cm)	Bottom Depth (cm)	Restriction Kind	Restriction Hardness

Slope (%)	Elevation (meters)	Aspect (deg)	MAAT (C)	MSAT (C)	MWAT (C)	MAP (mm)	Frost Free Days	Drainage Class	Slope Length (meters)	Upslope Length (meters)
3	12	280	9	20	-2	1225		excessively

Ap--0 to 23 centimeters; brown (10YR 4/3) interior, sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; 10 percent 2- to 76-millimeter mixed rock fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.

Bw1--23 to 38 centimeters; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior, gravelly loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout; 20 percent subangular 2- to 76-millimeter mixed rock fragments and 3 percent subangular 76- to 250-millimeter mixed rock fragments; gradual wavy boundary.

Bw2--38 to 51 centimeters; light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior, gravelly loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure, and weak medium subangular blocky structure, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few very fine roots throughout; 25 percent subangular 2- to 76-millimeter mixed rock fragments and 3 percent subangular 76- to 250-millimeter mixed rock fragments; clear wavy boundary.

C1--51 to 127 centimeters; pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) interior, very gravelly fine sand; massive; friable, very weakly cemented, nonsticky, nonplastic; few very fine roots top of horizon; common very fine vesicular pores; 4 percent fine distinct dendritic yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries around rock fragments and 4 percent medium distinct dendritic yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries around rock fragments; 35 percent subangular 2- to 76-millimeter mixed rock fragments and 3 percent subangular 76- to 250-millimeter mixed rock fragments; gradual wavy boundary.

C2--127 centimeters; pale yellow (5Y 7/3) interior, very gravelly fine sand; massive; very friable, very weakly cemented, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine vesicular pores; 6 percent fine distinct dendritic yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries around rock fragments and 6 percent medium distinct dendritic yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries around rock fragments; 35 percent subangular 2- to 76-millimeter mixed rock fragments and 3 percent subangular 76- to 250-millimeter mixed rock fragments.