IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Podunk
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010VT019001
  • User Pedon ID: S10VT019001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2010VT019001
  • User Site Association ID: VT Lake Champlain Phosphorus Study
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N6697
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69798
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 44.9560056
  • Std. Longitude: -72.3966722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: near confluence of Jay Brook and Missisquoi River near red covered bridge; pit 1 CC
  • Map Unit: 76A—Podunk fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT019—Orleans
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT019—Orleans County, Vermont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44072-H4—North Troy, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Alves
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Podunk
  • Classificaton Date - 3/25/2013
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: alluvial plain, meander belt
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/17/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    PHAR3

    RUOC

    Phalaris arundinacea

    Rubus occidentalis

    reed canarygrass

    black raspberry

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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

    3

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    Ap—0 to 22 centimeters (0.0 to 8.7 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loamy sand; weak coarse granular structure; friable; many very fine roots and many medium roots and many fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C1—22 to 32 centimeters (8.7 to 12.6 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C2—32 to 68 centimeters (12.6 to 26.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots and few fine roots; 1 percent by volume 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C3—68 to 93 centimeters (26.8 to 36.6 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; 2 percent medium yellowish red (5YR 4/6); fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C4—93 to 125 centimeters (36.6 to 49.2 inches); dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3) sandy loam; massive; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C5—125 to 140 centimeters (49.2 to 55.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) coarse sand; single grain; friable; 5 percent by volume 5-13-20 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method.; observed in pit, small