IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Canton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999CT013001
  • User Pedon ID: 1999CT013001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1999CT013001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0560
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11419
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 41.9799805
  • Std. Longitude: -72.4195099
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lievre Brook, Harvard Forest Hemlock Study. About 1400 feet Southeast of intersection of Gulf Rd and Rte 190, East of Somers, CT.
  • Map Unit: 61B—Canton and Charlton fine sandy loams, 0 to 8 percent slopes, very stony
  • State: Connecticut
  • County: CT013—Tolland
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CT600—State of Connecticut
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41072-H4—Ellington, Connecticut

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Fisher, S. McVey, B. Thompson, M. Faber
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Canton
  • PSC - 33 to 108 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2016
  • Classifier - Donald Parizek
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - CANTON
  • Classificaton Date - 7/15/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/15/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    ACSA3

    BEAL2

    COMA7

    FAGR

    QUAL

    TRIEN

    TSUGA

    Acer saccharum

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Convallaria majalis

    Fagus grandifolia

    Quercus alba

    Trientalis

    Tsuga

    sugar maple

    yellow birch

    European lily of the valley

    American beech

    white oak

    starflower

    hemlock

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

    ochric epipedon

    sapric soil materials

    cambic horizon

    0—15

    0—8

    15—65

    —15—

    —8—

    —50—
    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

    11

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    128

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    190

    1200

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    Oa—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); reddish black (2.5YR 2/1) highly decomposed plant material; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P03496; observed in pit, small
    A—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 fine and medium roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P03497; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 5-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 99P03498; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 5-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P03499; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 5-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P03500; observed in pit, small
    BC—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) very bouldery loamy sand; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 5-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular 600-850-1500 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P03501; observed in pit, small
    2C—86 to 203 centimeters (33.9 to 79.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) extremely bouldery sand; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 5-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 600-850-1500 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 99P03503; observed in pit, small
    2C—86 to 203 centimeters (33.9 to 79.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) very bouldery loamy fine sand; massive, and single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 5-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 600-850-1500 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 99P03502; observed in pit, small. Sample 3502 is 70 percent and sample 3503 is 30 percent; pockets make up line 1 & 2 makes up 70&, 3 makes up 30%, in VFSL texture: stains 25 YR 4/6 (rotted out rock)