IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Limerick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007VT001002
  • User Pedon ID: S07VT001002
  • User Site Association ID: VT Lake Champlain Phosphorus Study
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0727
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19311
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 44.2401962
  • Std. Longitude: -73.0595627
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Starksboro - further south from pit 1 in same field
  • Map Unit: Le—Limerick silt loam
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT001—Addison
  • MLRA: 142—St. Lawrence-Champlain Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT001—Addison County, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Villars, C. Alves, E. Young, J. Maisonpierre
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, nonacid, mesic Typic Fluvaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Limerick
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, nonacid, mesic Typic Fluvaquents
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/2007
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Bedrock: quartzite
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/12/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3) silt; moderate medium granular, and moderate coarse granular structure; friable; 4.0 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bg—12 to 43 centimeters (4.7 to 16.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) silt; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots; 10 percent fine prominent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, iron-manganese masses and 30 percent medium prominent 5Y 4/6 (5Y 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Cg1—43 to 65 centimeters (16.9 to 25.6 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) silt; massive; friable; 1 percent fine prominent masses of oxidized iron on surfaces along root channels and 10 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, and 30 percent medium prominent red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on surfaces along root channels; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Cg2—65 to 103 centimeters (25.6 to 40.6 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silt; massive; friable; 10 percent coarse prominent red (2.5YR 4/6), moist,; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Ab—103 to 160 centimeters (40.6 to 63.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt; massive; friable; 10 percent medium prominent red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on surfaces along pores and 10 percent fine faint dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist,; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C3—160 to 170 centimeters (63.0 to 66.9 inches); ; massive; friable; fragments.; observed in auger, bucket