IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Duane
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S09VT007002
  • User Pedon ID: S09VT007002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S09VT007002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0724
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43297
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 44.4431648
  • Std. Longitude: -73.0832367
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Chittenden County, Vermont; Town of Williston. Behind Catholic Church on Rt 2 just before town center (going up the hill); small flat area - otherwise steep banks going down to Allen Brook.
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT007—Chittenden
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT007—Chittenden County, Vermont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44073-D1—Essex Junction, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Alves, R. Bourgault, A. Garcia, E. Garcia, M. Thomas
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, frigid, ortstein Typic Haplorthods
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Duane
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, mixed, frigid, ortstein Typic Haplorthods
  • Classificaton Date - 6/25/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy and gravelly alluvium
  • Landscape: alluvial plain, meander belt
  • Landform: alluvial flat
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Skeels Corner Slate formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/25/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    FAGR

    PIST

    POAC4

    TSCA

    Fagus grandifolia

    Pinus strobus

    Polystichum acrostichoides

    Tsuga canadensis

    American beech

    eastern white pine

    Christmas fern

    eastern hemlock

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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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    120.4

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    135

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    A1—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) sandy loam; weak coarse granular structure; very friable; 1.0 very fine roots and 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; 5 percent by volume 5-13-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—17 to 28 centimeters (6.7 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 4.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 10.0 coarse roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 very fine roots and 4.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 10.0 coarse roots; 1 percent by volume 5-13-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2C1—53 to 70 centimeters (20.9 to 27.6 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) very gravelly coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose; 4.0 very fine roots and 4.0 fine roots; 7 percent coarse faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist,; 35 percent by volume 5-13-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2AB—70 to 88 centimeters (27.6 to 34.6 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) extremely gravelly coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose; 4.0 very fine roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume 5-13-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2C3—88 to 120 centimeters (34.6 to 47.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) extremely gravelly coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose; 7 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist,; 2 percent by volume 600-800-999 millimeter unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume 5-13-20 millimeter unspecified fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small