IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Buckland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985VT027021
  • User Pedon ID: 85VT027021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0972
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57238
  • Print Date: 5/7/2025

    • 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: 43.7569427
  • Std. Longitude: -72.6133347
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 45 meters W of North Road and 2745 meters S of Royalton town line.
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT027—Windsor
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David G. Van Houten
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, frigid Aquic Humudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 21
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Buckland (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 35 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2013
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Buckland T
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1985
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

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    63 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    0—36

    36—64

    64—

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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

    4

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    460

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    270

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    1A p—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, dry; loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 roots; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P5238. 3% coarse gravel.; many roots
    1B s1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3) interior fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; weakly smeary; 2.5 roots; 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 85P5239. 2% coarse gravel.; common roots
    1B s2—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) interior silt loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; weakly smeary; 2.5 roots; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 85P5240. 1% coarse gravel.; common roots; few fine distinct 10YR36 mottles
    1B w—53 to 64 centimeters (20.9 to 25.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) interior fine sandy loam; 1 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine faint and 1 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) fine distinct and 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) fine prominent mottles; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P5241. 1% coarse gravel.; few roots; few fine faint 2.5Y52 mottles; few fine distinct 10YR33 mottles; few fine prominent 10YR34 mottles
    1C r1—64 to 94 centimeters (25.2 to 37.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior loam; 1 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) medium distinct and 1 percent 2.5Y 3/0 (2.5Y 3/0) fine distinct mottles; moderate coarse platy structure; firm; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P5242. 4% coarse gravel; less than 1% cobbles.; few medium distinct 10YR33 mottles; few fine distinct 2.5Y30 mottles
    1C r2—94 to 165 centimeters (37.0 to 65.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine prominent mottles; massive; firm; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P5243. 5% coarse gravel; less than 1% cobbles.; few fine prominent 10YR44 mottles