PEDON DESCRIPTION


Click for Photo

Pedon ID: S08MA023002-Merrimac-P (crop)
Site ID: S08MA023002-Merrimac-S (crop)
Lab Pedon #:S08MA023002
Description Date: 8/18/2008 6:57:10 AM
Print Date: 8/21/2008
Describer: Donald Parizek, Debbie Surabian, & Rob Tunstead
Site Notes:
Pedon Notes: Text: Pedon part of a paired site to comparing land use NSSLaboratory data.
Soil Name As Described/Sampled: Merrimac
Soil Name As Correlated:
Classification: Sandy, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
Pedon Type: Typical pedon for series
Pedon Purpose: Full pedon description
Taxon Kind: Series
SSURGO MU: 254A - Merrimac sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes
Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA023 - Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Land Resource Region: R - Northeastern Forage and Forest Region
MLRA: 144A - New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
MLRA Soil Survey Area: SS144A - New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part MLRA Soil Survey
County or Parish: MA023 - Plymouth
State or Territory: MA - Massachusetts
Country: US - United States
7.5' Quad: 41070-F7 - Marion, Massachusetts
MLRA Region Office Area: 12 - Amherst, MA
Physiographic Division: AH - Appalachian Highlands
Physiographic Province: NE - New England Province
Physiographic Section: SLS - Seaboard lowland section
MLRA Survey Office Management Area: 12-6 - Windsor, Connecticut
Lat/Long: 41°44’15.7” north, 70°51’29.6” west
UTM: 345472E, 4622322N -- Datum NAD83, Zone 19
Location Description: In the town of Rochester in a cropped field, 125 meters directly South of Rounseville Road (Route 105) and 1,023 meters West-Southwest of the intersection of Vaughn Hill Road and Rounseville Road. Property farmed by Frank Cervelli.
Legal Description:
Landscape: outwash plain
Landform: outwash plain
Microfeature:
Anthropogenic Feature:
Geomorphic Component: Tread
Profile Pos: Shoulder: on middle third
Slope: 1 percent
Elevation: 16.8 meters
Aspect: 90°
Shape: up/down: Concave; across: Linear
Complexity: Simple
Flooding: None
Ponding: None
Drainage: Somewhat excessively drained
Runoff: Low
Permeability: Moderately rapid
Erosion: None - deposition
Primary Earth Cover: Tree cover; Secondary Earth Cover: Intermixed conifers and hardwoods
Parent Materials: sandy glaciofluvial deposits
Bedrock:
Particle Size Control Section: 37 to 100 centimeters
Diagnostic Features: Ochric epipedon: 0 to 37 centimeters and Cambic horizon: 37 to 54 centimeters

SlopeElevationAspectMAATMSATMWATMAPFrost-Free DaysDrainage ClassSlope LengthUpslope Length
1 percent16.8 meters90°9.4° C20.4° C-1.9° C1225 millimeters201 dayssomewhat excessively

Ap --- 0 to 37 centimeters; dark brown (10YR 3/3) moist, interior, sandy loam; pale brown (10YR 6/3) dry, interior; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; few very fine irregular low continuity pores; 4 percent subrounded 2 to 76 millimeters mixed rock fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, Bromthymol blue; A hint of a plowpan in lower part of Ap horizon. Pocket penetrometer readings 2.75, 3.75, 4.25; original spring used. Dead corn roots observed in horizon.; abrupt smooth boundary.

Bw1 --- 37 to 54 centimeters; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) moist, interior, sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; few fine tubular high continuity and few very fine irregular low continuity pores; 8 percent subrounded 2 to 76 millimeters mixed rock fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, Chlorophenol red; Slight increase in Db at Ap top of horizon contact. Pocket penetrometer readings 3.25, 2.50, & 2.0; original spring used.; clear smooth boundary.

Bw2 --- 54 to 71 centimeters; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) moist, interior, loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; few very fine irregular low continuity and few fine tubular high continuity pores; 10 percent subrounded 2 to 76 millimeters mixed rock fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, Chlorophenol red; Pocket penetrometer readings 1.75, 1.25, & 1.25; original spring used.; gradual wavy boundary.

C1 --- 71 to 104 centimeters; brown (10YR 4/3) moist, exterior, stratified, gravelly sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; many very fine interstitial moderate continuity pores; 20 percent subrounded 2 to 76 millimeters mixed rock fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, Bromthymol blue; Pockets & lenses of fine gravel. Pockets predominate. Pockets of loamy sand material as well. Pocket penetrometer readings 0.75, 1.25, & 0.5; original spring used.; clear wavy boundary.

C2 --- 104 to 200 centimeters; brown (10YR 4/3) moist, exterior, stratified, sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; 10 percent subrounded 2 to 76 millimeters mixed rock fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, Chlorophenol red; Pockets of loamy sand material. Pocket penetrometer readings 2.25, 3.0, & 3.0; Lee spring used..