IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amostown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980VT021002
  • User Pedon ID: 80VT021002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0409
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48185
  • Print Date: 4/21/2025

    • 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: 43.6349983
  • Std. Longitude: -73.2474976
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Scotch Road. Town of Fairhaven.
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT021—Rutland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Yost and J. Pratt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Amostown
  • PSC - 45 to 95 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lansing
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Glossoboric Hapludalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1980
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—30

    45—205

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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

    24

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    270

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 roots; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02188. many roots
    A/B—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 roots; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02189. common roots
    B/A—30 to 45 centimeters (11.8 to 17.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 roots; 15 percent , moist, clay films between sand grains; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02190. few clay films surface features between sand grains; common roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091801; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091801
    Bt1—45 to 80 centimeters (17.7 to 31.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 37 percent , moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02191. common clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; few roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091804; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091804
    Bt2—80 to 120 centimeters (31.5 to 47.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 37 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent coarse prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02192. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few coarse prominent 7.5YR56 mottles; few coarse prominent 2.5Y54 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091799; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091799
    Bt3—120 to 155 centimeters (47.2 to 61.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 55 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02193. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091802; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091802
    Bt4—155 to 205 centimeters (61.0 to 80.7 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior gravelly loam; weak coarse angular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 37 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02194. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091803; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091803
    BC—205 to 230 centimeters (80.7 to 90.6 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent , moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02195. few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091800; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091800
    C—230 to 260 centimeters (90.6 to 102.4 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 80P02196