IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Paxton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955NH017001
  • User Pedon ID: S1955NH017001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0467
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32995
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 43.1472206
  • Std. Longitude: -70.9472198
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Strafford County, New Hampshire. O'Kane Field. University of New Hampshire property, 1/4 mile north of the Dairy Barn.
  • Map Unit: WfB—Windsor loamy fine sand, clay subsoil variant, 0 to 8 percent slopesWfB—Windsor loamy fine sand, clay subsoil variant, 0 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: New Hampshire
  • County: NH017—Strafford
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NH017—Strafford County, New Hampshire
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43070-B8—Dover West, New Hampshire

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L.T. Alexander, L.E. Garland, D. van der Voet, and W.H. Lyford.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Paxton
  • PSC - 25 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/2014
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Paxton
  • Classificaton Date - 10/14/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy till over sandy till over coarse-loamy till over coarse-loamy lodgment till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/14/1955 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    strongly contrasting textural stratification

    densic material

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    noncoherent

    41 -

    79 - 124

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    - 45 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    densic contact

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    densic materials

    0—20

    20—79

    41—61

    61—79

    79—

    79—107

    79—107

    79—124

    79—124

    —20—

    —59—

    —20—

    —18—

    —-

    —28—

    —28—

    —45—

    —46—
    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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    —

    29.7

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    355

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loam; moderate medium and coarse granular parts to weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 40A03487. Contains approximately 5 percent coarse skeleton of 1-3 inch subrounded relatively unweathered fragments. Earthworms are common with a few night-crawlers exposed in the upper B horizon. Soil material held together by grass rootlets.
    Bw1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; very friable; 0.5 fine pores; 5 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 40A03488. Contains about 5 percent coarse skeleton, chroma strongest at top fading with depth. Pores are unglazed and occur in the interior of the blocks with none on the surface.
    2Bw2—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) very gravelly loamy coarse sand; weak coarse platy structure; friable; brittle; 3.0 pores; 25 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 40A03489. Contains 20-30 percent coarse skeleton in the 1-3 inch range. Pores are unglazed and appear in the interior.
    3Bw3—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) very gravelly sandy loam; single grain parts to platy; friable; 0.5 pores; 44 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 40A03490. Contains 40-50 percent coarse skeleton. In the platy peds, there are a few glazed pores. This may be an unconforming or wave-washed till horizon.
    4Cd1—79 to 107 centimeters (31.1 to 42.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) very gravelly fine sandy loam; weak coarse platy structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; 0.5 pores; 1 percent coarse distinct masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent coarse distinct olive gray (5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; 30 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 40A03491. Contains 20-40 percent 1-4 inch subrounded coarse skeleton. A few soft brown weathered sandy limestone ghosts were cut through in this and the adjacent horizon when the pit was dug. Mottles occur along the plate faces. Not enough for a ""g"" destination. Few glazed interior pores, no pores on the surface.
    4Cd2—107 to 124 centimeters (42.1 to 48.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) very gravelly fine sandy loam; weak coarse platy structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; 0.5 pores; 30 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 40A03492. Like the horizon above but not mottled. A few soft brown weathered sandy limestone ghosts were cut through in this and the adjacent horizon when the pit was dug. Few glazed interior pores, no pores on the surface.