IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Canterbury
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956NH013001
  • User Pedon ID: S1956NH013001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0479
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33007
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 43.3680573
  • Std. Longitude: -71.6291656
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Approximately 3/4 mile east of Hart Hill on the Usilka Farm, Northfield. The pit was dug in a hayfield approximately 200 feet east of town road (dirt) and about 300 yards north of farmhouse.
  • State: New Hampshire
  • County: NH013—Merrimack
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NH013—Merrimack County, New Hampshire

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. Dickason, E. Hutchinson, A.D. Hamilton, E.J. Pedersen, D. van der Voet, and L.E. Garland.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, frigid Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Canterbury
  • PSC - 25 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/2014
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Montauk
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/19/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    densic material

    noncoherent

    64 - 132

    - 68 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    densic materials

    aquic conditions

    0—23

    23—64

    64—

    64—132

    64—132

    —23—

    —41—

    —-

    —68—

    —68—
    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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine roots; 9 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03577
    Bw1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03578
    Bw2—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 23 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03579. Clods average one inch.
    Bw3—53 to 64 centimeters (20.9 to 25.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 8 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03580. clods average one inch.
    Cd1—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate coarse platy structure; very firm; 3.0 fine pores; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, coats on faces of peds and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist,; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 40A03581. arbitrary division for sampling purposes. Not sampled as part of the horizon. Pores are glazed and are on the outside of plates. Fine sand occurred at 25 inch depth.
    Cd2—86 to 109 centimeters (33.9 to 42.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate coarse platy structure; very firm; 21.0 fine pores; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, coats on faces of peds and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A03582
    Cd3—109 to 132 centimeters (42.9 to 52.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate coarse platy structure; very firm; 21.0 fine pores; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, coats on faces of peds and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A03583