IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vershire
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987VT027001
  • User Pedon ID: 87VT027001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1987VT027001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0581
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59876
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 43.5280571
  • Std. Longitude: -72.5041656
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Windsor County, VT: Town of W Windsor, 100 feet S of Hartland town line, 7600 feet E of Reading town line. Dugdale Farm.
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT027—Windsor
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Villars, McLeese, Gourley, Wheeler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Humudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vershire
  • PSC - 25 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/2/2014
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tunbridge
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Typic Haplorthod
  • Taxon Kind - variant
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    DAGL

    SOLID

    TRRE3

    Dactylis glomerata

    Solidago

    Trifolium repens

    orchardgrass

    goldenrod

    white clover

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    73 -

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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—40

    40—55

    73—

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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

    12

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    417

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    90

    100

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    6

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    7

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior fine sandy loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P3045; dry when described;. many very fine roots; many fine roots throughout
    Ap2—10 to 22 centimeters (3.9 to 8.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 37 percent faint , moist, iron stains on sand and gravel; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P3046; very moist when described;. The sand grains are mixed parts of the B horizon, they are coated with sesquioxides and have very few black micro pellets. Sand grains seen with a 10x and 20x hand lense and a 100x microscope.; common iron stains surface features on sand and gravel; many very fine roots; common fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 1260284; continuous - phpvsfiid 1260284
    Bw1—22 to 40 centimeters (8.7 to 15.7 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 55 percent faint , moist, iron stains on sand and gravel; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P3047; very moist when described;. Weakly smeary, all the sand grains are thinly coated with sequioxides with a few micro size black pellets.; many iron stains surface features on sand and gravel; few fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 1260285; continuous - phpvsfiid 1260285
    Bw2—40 to 55 centimeters (15.7 to 21.7 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 37 percent faint , moist, clay films on sand and gravel; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P3048; very moist when described;. Sand grains coated.; common clay films surface features on sand and gravel; few fine roots; few medium roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1260286; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1260286
    C—55 to 73 centimeters (21.7 to 28.7 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 2 percent faint , moist, clay films on sand and gravel; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P3049; very moist when described;. Sand grains coated.; very few clay films surface features on sand and gravel; few fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1260287; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1260287
    R—73 centimeters (28.7 inches); bedrock; fragments. Schist or phyllite.