IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amenia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982VT021002
  • User Pedon ID: 82VT021002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0109
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 52351
  • 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: 43.8411102
  • Std. Longitude: -73.0999985
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT021—Rutland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. Ferguson, D. Van Houten
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Aquic Eutrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Amenia
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Amenia
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Aquic Eutrochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1982
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    1Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 5.5 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P00447. many roots
    1Bw1—18 to 27 centimeters (7.1 to 10.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; 1 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) fine prominent mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P00448. Krotovina and worm casts in root channels.; common roots; few fine prominent 10YR33 mottles
    1Bw2—27 to 39 centimeters (10.6 to 15.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P00449. few roots
    1Bw3—39 to 64 centimeters (15.4 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine prominent and 1 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine prominent and 11 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) medium distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 15 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P00450. few roots; few fine prominent 10YR58 mottles; common medium distinct 10YR44 mottles; few fine prominent 10YR42 mottles
    1BC—64 to 99 centimeters (25.2 to 39.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine prominent and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine prominent and 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine prominent mottles; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.2 roots; 25 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P00451. very few to few roots; few fine prominent 10YR44 mottles; few fine prominent 10YR58 mottles; few fine prominent 10YR52 mottles
    1C1—99 to 140 centimeters (39.0 to 55.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) fine distinct and 1 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) fine distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; extremely firm*; 15 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P00452. few fine distinct 2.5Y56 mottles; few fine distinct 2.5Y44 mottles
    1C2—140 to 200 centimeters (55.1 to 78.7 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; extremely firm*; 15 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 83P00453