IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Colonel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2013NH605001
  • User Pedon ID: 2013NH605001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2013NH605001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - FS
  • Lab Pedon # - 2013NH605001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79703
  • 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: 44.0403242
  • Std. Longitude: -71.7923676
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: TEUI plot 031, SIE map unit 21, near Beaver Pond parking area
  • State: New Hampshire
  • County: NH009—Grafton
  • MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-STJ—Saint Johnsbury, Vermont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NH605—White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire and Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DeKett, Stuart
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: ecological site data
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.0
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Colonel
  • Classificaton Date - 8/26/2013
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: basal till
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainbase
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/20/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Kind: microslope
  • 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
  • Current Weather - overcast
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    FAGR

    Fagus grandifolia

    American beech

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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

    5

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    448

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    280

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    Oe—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); reddish black (2.5YR 2.5/1) moderately decomposed plant material; massive; friable; 7.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oa—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) highly decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 2013NH0011; moist when described; observed in pit, small. could be an A horizon
    Bhs1—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) cobbly fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 2013NH0012; moist when described; observed in pit, small. also a broken E (10YR 4/1)
    Bhs2—28 to 59 centimeters (11.0 to 23.2 inches); cobbly fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 15 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. possibly faint redox but can't describe
    Cd—59 centimeters (23.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) cobbly fine sandy loam; weak thin platy structure; firm; 1 percent fine faint gray (2.5Y 5/1) iron depletions and 30 percent coarse prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) iron-manganese masses; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 2013NH0013; moist when described; observed in pit, small