IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mansfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968VT003004
  • User Pedon ID: 1968VT003004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1968VT003004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0523
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33051
  • Print Date: 4/22/2025

    • 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: 43.2500000
  • Std. Longitude: -73.2527771
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 5,000 feet northwest of West Rupert
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT003—Bennington
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT003—Bennington County, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Typic Humaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mansfield
  • PSC - 25 to 51 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/19/2012
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MANSFIELD
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1968 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CAREX

    IMPAT

    Carex

    Impatiens

    sedge

    touch-me-not

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    cambic horizon

    reduced matrix

    0—33

    0—107

    33—94

    33—107

    —33—

    —107—

    —61—

    —74—
    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

    4

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    293

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    A—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), gray (5YR 6/1), dry; mucky silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 roots; 5 percent by volume unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03897
    AB—28 to 33 centimeters (11.0 to 13.0 inches); extremely gravelly loam; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03898
    2Bw—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) gravelly coarse sandy loam; 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine distinct mottles; weak fine angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 20 percent by volume unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03899
    3Bg—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); greenish gray (5GY 5/1) and bluish gray (10B 5/1) and greenish gray (10GY 5/1) gravelly loam; 1 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) fine distinct and 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine distinct and 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak fine angular blocky structure; friable; 0.0 roots; 20 percent by volume unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 40A03900
    3Bdg1—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); 39 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and 30 percent olive (5Y 5/3) and 30 percent olive (5Y 5/4) loam; 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine faint and 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) fine faint mottles; massive; firm; 0.0 roots; 25 percent by volume unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03901
    3Bdg2—71 to 94 centimeters (28.0 to 37.0 inches); 40 percent gray (5Y 5/1) and 30 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and 30 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) loam; massive; firm; 0.0 roots; 25 percent by volume unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, bromthymol blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03902
    3Cdg—94 to 107 centimeters (37.0 to 42.1 inches); 40 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) and 30 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and 30 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) silt loam; massive; firm; fragments. Lab sample # 40A03903