IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vergennes
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957NY045001
  • User Pedon ID: S1957NY045001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1957NY045001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0267
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32795
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 43.9991684
  • Std. Longitude: -75.9002762
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Jefferson County, New York. Follow US 11 north of Watertown about 2 miles beyond Evans Mills to regional forage variety trial on west side of road. This is 1.15 miles south of an abandoned school house on the same side of the road and 0.2 mile south of a bridge over a small stream by an old unpainted barn. Sampled south of the plots outside the plot fence opposite the center alley.
  • State: New York
  • County: NY045—Jefferson
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NY045—Jefferson County, New York

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vergennes
  • PSC - 11 to 31 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/26/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/26/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ELRE4

    Elymus repens

    quackgrass

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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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak and moderate medium granular structure; firm; 21.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A01962
    A2&B—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam, silty clay; 3 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium and 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium mottles; fine and medium prismatic, and weak thin platy structure; friable; 3.0 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A01963. Prisms constitute 10 percent of the upper inch and 75 percent of the lower inch of the horizon. Silty material in vertical bands 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick and 3 to 6 inches apart extend downward 1 to 2 inches around tops of prisms of the underlying B.
    B21t—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) and brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior silty clay; 3 percent fine faint mottles; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 1.0 fine roots; 75 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A01964. Clay films appear below the uppermost 2 inches.
    B22t—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; 3 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) medium and 3 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) medium mottles; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine roots; dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A01965
    B3t—69 to 107 centimeters (27.2 to 42.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silty clay, silty clay loam; 1 percent medium faint mottles; platy parts to weak medium and coarse angular blocky structure; firm, moderately plastic; 1.0 roots; black (10YR 2/1), moist, coats on faces of peds and 20 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A01966. Crude vertical cleavage divides the plates.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 183858; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 183858
    C1—107 to 130 centimeters (42.1 to 51.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and brown (7.5YR 5/2) and brown (10YR 5/3) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt, clay; moderate and strong platy structure; firm, moderately plastic; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A01967. Few to common 1/4 to 1/2 inch nodules and few 1/8 inch horizontal bands of silty calcareous material within a soil mass that does not effervesce with HCl.
    C2—130 to 198 centimeters (51.2 to 78.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) clay, silt loam; firm, moderately plastic; carbonate coats on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A01968. Varves 1/8 to 1/2 inch thick range from clay to silt loam.