IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Podunk
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010VT019006
  • User Pedon ID: S10VT019006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2010VT019006
  • User Site Association ID: VT Lake Champlain Phosphorus Study
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N6702
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70338
  • 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: 44.9019194
  • Std. Longitude: -72.4015556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2.5 miles north of Lowell in back of slaughter house; pit 6 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-G4—Lowell, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Alves, E. Ishee
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Pedon #: 6
  • 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
  • Landform: meander scar
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/25/2010 (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

    EQUIS

    PHPR3

    VICIA

    Equisetum

    Phleum pratense

    Vicia

    horsetail

    timothy

    vetch

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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
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    2

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    Ap1—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; many very fine roots and common medium roots and many fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—17 to 30 centimeters (6.7 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) loamy sand; weak medium granular structure; friable; many very fine roots and common fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Ab—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine sandy loam; weak coarse granular structure; friable; common very fine roots and few fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    B—53 to 65 centimeters (20.9 to 25.6 inches); dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3) loamy fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C1—65 to 83 centimeters (25.6 to 32.7 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; 1 percent medium dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C2—83 to 101 centimeters (32.7 to 39.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) very fine sandy loam; massive; friable; few very fine roots; 1 percent coarse gray (2.5Y 5/1) iron depletions and 15 percent coarse strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C3—101 to 168 centimeters (39.8 to 66.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) loamy sand; massive; friable; 7 percent coarse yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C4—168 to 181 centimeters (66.1 to 71.3 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) sand; single grain; friable; 3 percent coarse yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C5—181 to 194 centimeters (71.3 to 76.4 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) sand; massive; friable; 2 percent coarse yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Cg1—194 centimeters (76.4 inches); bluish gray (5PB 5/1) sand; massive; friable; 2 percent very coarse brown (7.5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments.; observed in pit, small