IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Yalesville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009CT009001
  • User Pedon ID: S09CT009001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24932
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • 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: 41.4082794
  • Std. Longitude: -72.9043350
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: New Haven County, CT in the town of Hamden on the Lockwood Farm approximately 100 feet south of Evergreen Road and 200 feet south west of the main gate.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Connecticut
  • County: CT009—New Haven
  • MLRA: 145—Connecticut Valley
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CT009—New Haven County, Connecticut

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Donald Parizek, Debbie Surabian, Bonnie Potocki
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Yalesville
  • PSC - 25 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/2/2013
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Yalesville
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Classificaton Date - 9/9/2009
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Red, coarse loamy meltout till
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: arkose at 61cm
  • Geology: New Haven Arkose formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/9/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—27

    27—61

    61—61

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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

    5

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    58

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    360

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    Ap1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) interior sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots between peds and 5.0 fine roots between peds; 2.0 medium high-continuity tubular and 4.0 fine low-continuity irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-50-75 millimeter arkose fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in trench
    Ap2—15 to 27 centimeters (5.9 to 10.6 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine roots between peds and 4.0 fine roots between peds; 2.0 medium high-continuity tubular and 4.0 fine low-continuity irregular pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular 75-150-250 millimeter arkose fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-50-75 millimeter arkose fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    Bw1—27 to 44 centimeters (10.6 to 17.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4.0 very fine roots between peds and 4.0 fine roots between peds; 5.0 medium moderate-continuity irregular and 1.0 medium high-continuity tubular and 5.0 fine low-continuity irregular pores; 2 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, organic stains on surfaces along pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-50-75 millimeter arkose fragments; clear irregular boundary.; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 469341; continuous - phpvsfiid 469341
    Bw2—44 to 61 centimeters (17.3 to 24.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots around fragments and 2.0 very fine roots between peds and 2.0 fine roots around fragments and 2.0 fine roots between peds; 5.0 medium moderate-continuity irregular and 1.0 medium high-continuity tubular and 5.0 fine low-continuity irregular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-50-75 millimeter arkose fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular 75-150-250 millimeter arkose fragments; very abrupt irregular boundary.; observed in trench. 2 % golf ball sized/shaped pockets of 10YR 4/4 Silt loam observed.
    2R—61 to 200 centimeters (24.0 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in trench