IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Merrimac
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978VT025001
  • User Pedon ID: 1978VT025001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0340
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45894
  • 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: 42.8747215
  • Std. Longitude: -72.5747223
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Town of Brattleboro, Town Farm, 500 feet west of I91 on Upper Dummerston road and 100 feet north of Upper Dummerston road
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT025—Windham
  • MLRA: 145—Connecticut Valley
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT025—Windham County, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Yost and W. Sheehan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Oxic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Merrimac
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/19/2012
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MERRIMAC
  • Classificaton Date - 5/15/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/15/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—20

    20—38

    56—

    102—

    —20—

    —18—

    —-

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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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    98

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; sandy loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 roots; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P01785
    Bw1—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) gravelly sandy loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 roots; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P01786
    Bw1—30 to 38 centimeters (11.8 to 15.0 inches); gravelly loamy sand; fragments. Lab sample # 78P01787. Horizon split for sampling at 30 cm.
    Bw2—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) gravelly coarse sand; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 roots; 20 percent by volume unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P01788
    2C1—56 to 102 centimeters (22.0 to 40.2 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) very gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; 0.5 roots; 45 percent by volume unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 78P01789
    3C2—102 to 145 centimeters (40.2 to 57.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) sand; massive; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 78P01790