IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rumney
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007VT011006
  • User Pedon ID: S07VT011006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007VT011006
  • User Site Association ID: VT Lake Champlain Phosphorus Study
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0232
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19740
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • 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: 44.7995033
  • Std. Longitude: -73.1059570
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: LaPierre property - along Rugg Brook - near sandy borrow pit; re-mapped as Windsor for high intensity mapping
  • Map Unit: Ru—Rumney variant silt loam
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT011—Franklin
  • MLRA: 142—St. Lawrence-Champlain Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT011—Franklin County, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Alves
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 18
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rumney
  • Classificaton Date - 11/26/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/26/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • 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
  • Yield Study ID -
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BEPO

    SOLID

    Betula populifolia

    Solidago

    gray birch

    goldenrod

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

    cambic horizon

    16—54

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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

    2

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    Ap—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine sandy loam; weak coarse granular structure; friable; 1 percent coarse distinct gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, iron depletions and 20 percent medium prominent red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—16 to 35 centimeters (6.3 to 13.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent coarse distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions and 30 percent very coarse prominent red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—35 to 54 centimeters (13.8 to 21.3 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent very coarse prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cd—54 to 69 centimeters (21.3 to 27.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) silty clay loam; massive; extremely firm; 10 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small