IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Stockbridge
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956CT005002
  • User Pedon ID: S1956CT005002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5409
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42654
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 41.8572083
  • Std. Longitude: -73.4962082
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 1-1/2 miles southwest of Sharon Center on Benton Hill Road 0.2 mile west of Highway 41, Demotte Farm.
  • State: Connecticut
  • County: CT005—Litchfield
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CT005—Litchfield County, Connecticut

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Shearin and Gonick
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Stockbridge
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: valley
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: DPC-5H-23
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) gravelly silt loam; coarse subangular blocky, and weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; fine roots; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A40697
    B21—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) crushed gravelly silt loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fine roots; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A40698
    B22—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) crushed gravelly silt loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A40699
    B23x—66 to 84 centimeters (26.0 to 33.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) gravelly loam; weak coarse platy parts to medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A40700
    C1—84 to 107 centimeters (33.1 to 42.1 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) and olive (5Y 4/3) silty clay loam; massive; very firm; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A40701. This horizon consists of the same material as in the overlying horizon with pockets or layers of variegated or mottled olive silty clay loam or silty clay.
    C2—107 to 178 centimeters (42.1 to 70.1 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) gravelly loam; medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments. Lab sample # 40A40702