IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Adirondack
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2013NH605002
  • User Pedon ID: 2013NH605002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - FS
  • Lab Pedon # - 2013NH605002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79704
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 44.0995990
  • Std. Longitude: -71.8136856
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: TEUI plot 068, SIE map unit 32
  • 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: Stuart, Philippe
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Typic Endoaquods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • 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 - Adirondack
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Typic Endoaquods
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 40 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/26/2013
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • 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: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/21/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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 - partly cloudy
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    84 -

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

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    densic contact

    15—24

    24—68

    84—

    —9—

    —44—

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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

    13

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    448

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    250

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    Oe—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); reddish black (2.5YR 2/1) 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; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Oa—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); reddish black (2.5YR 2.5/1) highly 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; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 2013NH0021; observed in pit, small
    E—15 to 24 centimeters (5.9 to 9.4 inches); gray (7.5YR 5/1) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 7 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions; abrupt broken boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bhs—24 to 29 centimeters (9.4 to 11.4 inches); reddish black (2.5YR 2.5/1) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately smeary; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 7 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 2013NH0022; observed in pit, small
    Bs1—29 to 43 centimeters (11.4 to 16.9 inches); fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; weakly smeary; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 7 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bs2—43 to 68 centimeters (16.9 to 26.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 5 percent medium faint dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) iron-manganese masses and 10 percent medium distinct olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) iron depletions; 5 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 7 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    BC—68 to 84 centimeters (26.8 to 33.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) very fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots; 5 percent medium faint light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) iron depletions and 10 percent coarse distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) iron-manganese masses; 5 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 7 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Cd—84 to 100 centimeters (33.1 to 39.4 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) fine sandy loam; weak thin platy structure; firm; 10 percent coarse faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) iron depletions and 10 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 7 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 2013NH0023; observed in pit, small