IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vershire
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984VT023010
  • User Pedon ID: 84VT023010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0794
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55037
  • 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: 44.1916656
  • Std. Longitude: -72.6266632
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT023—Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Gourley and B. Wheeler
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vershire
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    35

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    305

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    90

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); undecomposed organic matter; fragments. Lab sample # 84P04495. Loose litter
    Oa—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); partially decomposed organic matter; fragments. Lab sample # 84P04496. Highly decomposed litter.
    E—8 to 11 centimeters (3.1 to 4.3 inches); gray (5YR 6/1) interior very fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 roots; 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P04497. many roots
    Bhs—11 to 13 centimeters (4.3 to 5.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; weakly smeary; 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P04498
    Bs1—13 to 26 centimeters (5.1 to 10.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior and yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 roots; 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P04499. many roots
    Bs2—26 to 74 centimeters (10.2 to 29.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 2.5 roots; 5 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P04500. This horizon is sampled separately.; common roots
    Bs2—74 to 74 centimeters (29.1 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 2.5 roots; 5 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P04501. This horizon is sampled separately.; common roots
    C—74 to 77 centimeters (29.1 to 30.3 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior channery silt loam; massive; very friable; 5 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; abrupt broken boundary. Not sampled.
    R—77 to 87 centimeters (30.3 to 34.3 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. Phyllite; not sampled.