USDA - NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE PEDON DESCRIPTION

Print Date: 12/17/2002
Description Date: 09/29/1995
Describer: J. TURENNE SHARON LAPORTE

Site ID: MA023-1995-023-S
Site Note: Full plant inventory data available – DEP BVW delineation form.
NASIS Pedon ID: MA023-1995-023-P
COUNTY ID: 2370003
Pedon Note:

Soil Name as Described/Sampled: UDIPSAMMENTS, WET
Soil Name as Correlated:
Classification:
Pedon Type: modal pedon for map unit
Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
Taxon Kind: Miscellaneous area
Associated Soils: AQUENTS, GRAVEL PIT, UDIPSAMMENTS, UDORTHENTS, WET, URBAN LAND

Location Information:
Country: USA
State: Massachusetts
County: Plymouth County
MLRA: 144A -- New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
Soil Survey Area: MA023 -- Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Map Unit: 700
Quad Name: Bridgewater
Location Description: TOWN OF BRIDGEWATER - 300' EAST OF CONRAIL, 250' SOUTH OF BSC PARKING LOT, 100' N OF SOUTH BROOK, 1500' SW OF GREAT HILL SUMMIT.

Legal Description:
Latitude: 41 degrees 59 minutes 2.00 seconds north
Longitude: 70 degrees 57 minutes 50.00 seconds west
Datum: NAD 83
UTM Zone:19
UTM Easting: 0337375 meters
UTM Northing: 4649837 meters

Physiographic Division: Apalachian highlands:
Physiographic Province: New England
Physiographic Section: Seaboard lowland
State Physiographic Area: Taunton River Watershed
Local Physiographic Area: Glacial lake Taunton

Geomorphic Setting: None Assigned
Upslope Shape: Cross Slope Shape:
Primary Earth Cover: Other
Secondary Earth Cover:
Plant Association Name:
Existing Vegetation: See BVW Data Sheet for full inventory.

Parent Material: Human altered.
Bedrock Kind:
Bedrock Depth:
Bedrock Hardness:
Bedrock Fracture Interval:
Surface Fragments: 0.0 percent
Particle Size Control Section:
Diagnostic Features:? to ? in.

Slope: 1%
Elevation: 45 feet
Aspect: 180
Drainage: MWD

PROFILE DESCRIPTION:

Oi--1 to 0 centimeters (0.4 to 0.0 inches); peat; abrupt broken boundary.

C1--0 to 51 centimeters (0.0 to 20.1 inches); coarse sand, coarse sand, 50 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) and 50 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; common fine roots and common very fine roots; 10 percent rounded 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.

C2--51 to 107 centimeters (20.1 to 42.1 inches); coarse sand, coarse sand, very fine sandy loam, 45 percent pale olive (5Y 6/3) and 45 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and 10 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2), dry; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots; 1 percent subrounded 75- to 250-millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; C2 HORIZON THIN BAND OF VFSL MATERIAL IN FILL; clear wavy boundary.

C3--107 to 132 centimeters (42.1 to 52.0 inches); sand, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3 percent subrounded 75- to 250-millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.

C4--132 to 175 centimeters (52.0 to 68.9 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) sand; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent subrounded 75- to 250-millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.

2C1--175 to 203 centimeters (68.9 to 79.9 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) and greenish gray (5G 5/1) silt loam, silt loam; massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent subrounded 2- to75-millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent subrounded 75- to 250-millimeter unspecified fragments; 2C1, LOAMY FILL MATERIAL; POCKETS OF ORGANIC & LENSES OF MED. SAND..