USDA - NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE PEDON DESCRIPTION

Print Date: 12/17/2002
Description Date: 11/27/1995
Describer: J. TURENNE

Site ID: MA023-1995-009-S
Site Note: Description taken on the bank of an abandoned gravel pit, surface horizons taken from a small pit dug away from bank.

NASIS Pedon ID: MA023-1995-009-P
COUNTY ID: 2344001
Pedon Note:

Soil Name as Described/Sampled: GLOUCESTER
Soil Name as Correlated:
Classification:
Pedon Type: Within range of map unit
Pedon Purpose: Full pedon description
Taxon Kind: Series
Associated Soils: CANTON, HINCKLEY, PLYMOUTH, WINDSOR

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: 440 B
Quad Name: Marion
Location Description: TOWN OF MATTAPOISETT, 1100' NORTH OF OLD HAMMOND TOWN SCHOOL, 600' SOUTH OF THE HAMMOND CEMETARY, 1400' EAST OF THE MATTAPOISETT RIVER.

Legal Description:
Latitude: 41 degrees 39 minutes 45.00 seconds north
Longitude: 70 degrees 50 minutes 2.00 seconds west
Datum: NAD 27
UTM Zone:19
UTM Easting: 347320 meters
UTM Northing: 4613720 meters

Physiographic Division: Apalachian highlands:
Physiographic Province: New England
Physiographic Section: Seaboard lowland
State Physiographic Area: Mattapoisett River Valley
Local Physiographic Area:

Geomorphic Setting: On summit of head slope of crevasse filling
Upslope Shape: Convex Cross Slope Shape: convex
Primary Earth Cover: Tree
Secondary Earth Cover:
Plant Association Name:
Existing Vegetation: White oak

Parent Material: Ice contact outwash.
Bedrock Kind:
Bedrock Depth:
Bedrock Hardness:
Bedrock Fracture Interval:
 

Surface Fragments: 3.0 percent
Particle Size Control Section:
Diagnostic Features:? to ? in.

PROFILE DESCRIPTION:

Oi--0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); peat; 2" L - HORIZON UNDECOMPOSED OAK LEAVES & PINE NEEDLES.; clear wavy boundary.

Oe--3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) and dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) rubbed mucky peat; abrupt smooth boundary.

Oa--8 to 9 centimeters (3.1 to 3.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and black (7.5YR 2/1) rubbed muck; abrupt smooth boundary.

A--9 to 13 centimeters (3.5 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) sandy loam; massive; very friable; common fine and medium roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout and common very fine roots throughout; 1 percent subrounded 250- to 600-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments and 3 percent subrounded 75- to 250-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments and 5 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.

Bw1--13 to 53 centimeters (5.1 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) gravelly sandy loam; massive; friable; common fine and medium roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout and common very fine roots throughout; 2 percent subrounded 250- to 600-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments and 5 percent subrounded 75- to 250-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments and 20 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments; gradual wavy boundary.

BC--53 to 64 centimeters (20.9 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) very gravelly loamy coarse sand; massive; loose; common fine and medium roots throughout and common very fine roots throughout; 5 percent subrounded 75- to 250-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments and 5 percent subrounded 250- to 600-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments and 30 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments; gradual wavy boundary.

C--64 to 203 centimeters (25.2 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose; common very fine and fine roots around fragments; 1 percent patchy distinct dark reddish gray (10R 3/1) manganese or iron-manganese stains on rock fragments; 1 percent subangular 600-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments and 5 percent subangular 250- to 600-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments and 10 percent subrounded 75- to 250-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments and 50 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter mixed igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock fragments; 1-2% OF ROCK FRAGMENTS ARE SAPROLITIC SCHIST..