IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Stratton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2013NH605088
  • User Pedon ID: 2013NH605088
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - FS
  • Lab Pedon # - 2013NH605088
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79790
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 44.0224306
  • Std. Longitude: -71.8354861
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Top of Moosilauke Mtn, Wamo_2-13_Dwarf_Birch.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New Hampshire
  • County: NH009—Grafton
  • MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NH605—White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire and Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. DeKett, M. Stuart
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, isotic Lithic Humicryods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: ecological site data
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 88
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Stratton
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, isotic Lithic Humicryods
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 16 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2015
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountaintop
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated igneous, unspecified at 38cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/17/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: R. DeKett, M. Stuart
  • Microrelief Kind: microslope
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    38 -

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

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    16—22

    22—38

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    —16—
    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

    33

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    1405

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    290

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    Oe—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); black (5YR 2.5/1) broken face moderately decomposed plant material; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; deformable; common very fine roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and few coarse roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oa—7 to 16 centimeters (2.8 to 6.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face very stony highly decomposed plant material; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; deformable; many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and many coarse roots throughout; 50 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 250-450-600 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 2013NH0881; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    AE—16 to 22 centimeters (6.3 to 8.7 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face very stony fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; deformable; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 50 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 250-450-600 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bhs—22 to 38 centimeters (8.7 to 15.0 inches); reddish black (2.5YR 2.5/1) broken face very stony fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; deformable; common very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 50 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 250-450-600 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 2013NH0882; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—38 to 63 centimeters (15.0 to 24.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small