IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Woodbridge
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956NH017003
  • User Pedon ID: S1956NH017003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSl
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0502
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33030
  • 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: 43.3723032
  • Std. Longitude: -70.9967307
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Samples collected on the Vachon farm in the town of Farmington. Pit was dug in hayfield adjacent to dirt road approximately fifty feet from Rochester-Farmington town line. Strafford County, New Hampshire.
  • Map Unit: WgB—Woodbridge fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: New Hampshire
  • County: NH017—Strafford
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern 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-C8—Rochester, New Hampshire
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Wheeler, H.E. Winkley, A. Carmargo, E.J. Pedersen, E.J. Vieira, L.H. Gile, Jr., L.E. Garland.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Woodbridge
  • PSC - 25 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Woodbridge
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till derived from igneous and metamorphic rock
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/24/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    56 - 173

    - 117 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    densic contact

    densic materials

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    0—20

    20—56

    46—173

    56—

    56—173

    56—173

    —20—

    —36—

    —127—

    —-

    —117—

    —117—

    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

    159.6

    28

    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 roots; 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03752
    Bw1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 roots; 1 percent fine faint 5YR 4/ (5YR 4/), moist, iron depletions; 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03753. clods average 1-2 inches in size.
    Bw2—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 roots; 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03754
    BC—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak coarse platy structure; friable; 21.0 roots; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03755. Discontinuous streaks of iron oxide.
    Cdg1—56 to 79 centimeters (22.0 to 31.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) gravelly sandy loam; weak coarse platy structure; firm; 21.0 fine pores; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, and clay films and light gray (5Y 7/1), moist,; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03756
    Cdg2—79 to 122 centimeters (31.1 to 48.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) gravelly sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; firm; yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, coats on faces of peds and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, coats on faces of peds; 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03757
    Cdg3—122 to 173 centimeters (48.0 to 68.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; friable; 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter. Lab sample # 40A03758