IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sunday
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005VT005001
  • User Pedon ID: 05VT005001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0673
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17057
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 44.4426498
  • Std. Longitude: -72.0163727
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Cohen farm, north of St Johnsbury, across the river from the Price Chopper. In the Town of St, Johnsbury, Vermont, 2,100 feet east of Interstate 91 and 980 feet south of Hospital Drive.
  • Map Unit: 30A—Ondawa-Sunday complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT005—Caledonia
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT005—Caledonia County, Vermont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44072-D1—Saint Johnsbury, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Roger DeKett
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, frigid Fluventic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sunday
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/28/2013
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ondawa
  • Classificaton Date - 10/22/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy alluvium
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods begining in mar
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/22/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 26-155
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Microrelief Kind: microlow
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—48

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

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    177

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) crushed, dry; loamy fine sand; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt smooth boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) crushed, dry; loamy fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt wavy boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3) broken face loamy fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face loamy fine sand; structureless single grain; loose; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; diffuse wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—91 to 173 centimeters (35.8 to 68.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face loamy fine sand; structureless massive; friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8.; moist when described; observed in pit, small