IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dummerston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988VT005802
  • User Pedon ID: 88VT005802
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988VT005802
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0362
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61466
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 44.3347206
  • Std. Longitude: -72.1652756
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Peacham, Caledonia County; on Brook Road; 2700 feet NE of Peacham; 2000 feet SW of East Peacham.
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT005—Caledonia
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Alves
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy over loamy, mixed, active, frigid Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 802
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dummerston
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dummerston
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Typic Dystrochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1988 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ASCA3

    BEAL2

    PICEA

    Asclepias californica

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Picea

    California milkweed

    yellow birch

    spruce

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—10

    10—74

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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

    9

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    326

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    45

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) fine sandy loam; weak medium and coarse granular structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. common fine roots throughout
    E—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) fine sandy loam; weak medium and coarse granular structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear broken boundary. common fine roots throughout
    Bw1—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 89P01986. common fine roots throughout
    Bw2—25 to 74 centimeters (9.8 to 29.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P01987. few coarse roots throughout; common fine roots throughout
    C—74 to 165 centimeters (29.1 to 65.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) cobbly fine sandy loam; massive; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog. few fine roots throughout