IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amenia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982VT021004
  • User Pedon ID: 1982VT021004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0111
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 52353
  • 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: 43.4763870
  • Std. Longitude: -73.0433350
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Rutland County, town of Tinmouth, 0.7 mile south of the Tinmouth-Clarendon town line and 0.5 mile west of the Clarendon River
  • Map Unit: 66B—Georgia and Amenia soils, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT021—Rutland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT021—Rutland County, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. Ferguson, D. Van Houten
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Aquic Eutrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Amenia
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/21/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - second edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Amenia X
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1982
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous loamy till derived from mixed-calcareous
  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 1.45 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 medium roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P0460. many medium roots
    Bw1—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P0461. common fine roots
    Bw2—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) fine sandy loam; 11 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) medium distinct and 11 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) medium distinct and 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P0462. few very fine roots; common medium distinct 2.5Y52 mottles; common medium distinct 7.5YR44 mottles; common medium distinct 10YR56 mottles
    C1—61 to 117 centimeters (24.0 to 46.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) fine sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; extremely firm*; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P0463
    C2—117 to 200 centimeters (46.1 to 78.7 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) fine sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; extremely firm*; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 83P0464. Split for sampling at 160 cm.