IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vershire
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987VT027003
  • User Pedon ID: 87VT027003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1987VT027003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0583
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59878
  • 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: 43.6147232
  • Std. Longitude: -72.5919418
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Windsor County, VT: Town of Woodstock, Town Rd 16, Pedicord Property. 5700 feet ESE of Mendall Cemetery, 3200 feet E of
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT027—Windsor
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Villars, McLeese, Wheeler, Gourley
  • 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 #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vershire
  • PSC - 25 to 58 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 - udic
  • 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

    PHPR3

    Dactylis glomerata

    Phleum pratense

    orchardgrass

    timothy

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    58 -

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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—41

    41—58

    58—

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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

    16

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    468

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    90

    100

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    6

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    7

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent faint , moist, iron stains on sand and gravel; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P3058; moist when described;. few iron stains surface features on sand and gravel; many very fine roots; few medium and coarse roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 1260281; continuous - phpvsfiid 1260281
    Bw1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 55 percent faint , moist, iron stains on sand and gravel; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P3059; moist when described;. many iron stains surface features on sand and gravel; common very fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 1260282; continuous - phpvsfiid 1260282
    Bw2—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior loamy fine sand; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 37 percent faint , moist, iron stains on sand and gravel; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 87P3060; moist when described;. Bw2 is slightly coarser than Bw1 or A. Few strongly weathered (saprolite) rock fragments in lower part, easily crushed.; common iron stains surface features on sand and gravel; few very fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 1260283; continuous - phpvsfiid 1260283
    R—58 centimeters (22.8 inches); bedrock; fragments. 2R is unweathered interbedded phyllite and schist.