IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wilmington
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979VT025006
  • User Pedon ID: 1979VT025006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0285
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47018
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 42.9722214
  • Std. Longitude: -72.8458328
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Town of Dover 122 meters W of Cheney Brook 1.1 km N of Valley View Rd. Windham County, town of Dover; 300 feet west of Cheney Brook and 3100 feet north of Valley View Road. (this from original site.)
  • Map Unit: 31B—Wilmington sandy loam, 0 to 8 percent slopes, very stony
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT025—Windham
  • MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT025—Windham County, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Wilfred J. Sheehan, David Yost
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, acid, frigid, shallow Typic Humaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wilmington
  • PSC - 30 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/2/2015
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wilmington
  • Classificaton Date - 6/21/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy lodgment till derived from schist
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope, depression
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, lower third
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    53 -

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

    umbric epipedon

    densic contact

    5—53

    53—

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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

    10

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    530.4

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    —; ; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0.
    —; ; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0.
    —; ; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8.
    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) very fine sandy loam; moderate medium granular, and moderate coarse granular structure; very friable; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Bh1—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak medium granular, and weak coarse granular structure; very friable; moderately smeary; 1 percent fine faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2); 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01513
    Bh2—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very fine sandy loam; weak medium granular, and weak coarse granular structure; friable; moderately smeary; 10 percent medium faint brown (10YR 4/3); 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01514
    Bh3—46 to 53 centimeters (18.1 to 20.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) gravelly fine sandy loam; structureless massive; friable; moderately smeary; 10 percent medium distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2); 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01515
    Crg1—53 to 89 centimeters (20.9 to 35.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) cobbly fine sandy loam; structureless massive; firm; 1 percent coarse prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6); 10 percent by volume 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 14 percent by volume , 23 percent by weight 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01516
    Crg2—89 to 140 centimeters (35.0 to 55.1 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) fine sandy loam; structureless massive; firm; 14 percent by volume , 23 percent by weight 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01517
    Cr—185 to 241 centimeters (72.8 to 94.9 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) cobbly fine sandy loam; structureless massive; friable; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); 10 percent by volume 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 17 percent by volume , 26 percent by weight 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01518