IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rumney
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992VT027003
  • User Pedon ID: 92VT027003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992VT027003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0073
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65417
  • 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: 43.6511116
  • Std. Longitude: -72.5283356
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 2.5 km N of Woodstock; Pomfret school site.
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT027—Windsor
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT027—Windsor County, Vermont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43072-F5—Woodstock North, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Villars, D. Adam, M. Stuart, W. Lynn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Fluvaquentic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rumney
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Fluvaquentic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 30 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/28/2013
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Position: drainageway
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/2/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 36141
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    DAGL

    LOAR10

    TARAX

    TRIFO

    TRPR2

    TRRE3

    Dactylis glomerata

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Taraxacum

    Trifolium

    Trifolium pratense

    Trifolium repens

    orchardgrass

    tall fescue

    dandelion

    clover

    red clover

    white clover

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—30

    30—75

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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

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    220

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    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P00511
    Ap2—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P00512
    Bw—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) fine sandy loam; 21 percent olive gray (5Y 4/2) medium distinct and 21 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) medium prominent mottles; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P00513
    Bg—48 to 75 centimeters (18.9 to 29.5 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) fine sandy loam; 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine and coarse prominent and 21 percent dark greenish gray (5GY 4/1) fine and coarse prominent mottles; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P00514
    B'w—75 to 77 centimeters (29.5 to 30.3 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) loamy fine sand; 21 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine and coarse prominent and 21 percent dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) fine and coarse distinct mottles; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P00515
    Cg1—77 to 109 centimeters (30.3 to 42.9 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) loamy fine sand; 21 percent very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) medium mottles; massive; loose; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P00516. Contains chunks of buried wood.
    Cg2—109 to 157 centimeters (42.9 to 61.8 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) loamy fine sand; 21 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine and coarse prominent mottles; massive; loose; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P00517
    Cg3—157 to 187 centimeters (61.8 to 73.6 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) very gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; 40 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 93P00518. 15 lbs. = 20-75 mm; 109 lbs. = <20 mm.