IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Canton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958CT013002
  • User Pedon ID: S1958CT013002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1958CT013002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5406
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42651
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 41.9183159
  • Std. Longitude: -72.4142303
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 2.2 miles southwest of Crystal Lake on the south side of Crystal Lake Road. One-tenth of a mile west of junction of Crystal Lake and Shenipsit Lake Roads.
  • State: Connecticut
  • County: CT013—Tolland
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CT013—Tolland County, Connecticut

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Shearin
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Canton
  • PSC - 26 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/8/2015
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Charlton
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1958 (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

    QUAL

    QUVE

    VACCI

    Quercus alba

    Quercus velutina

    Vaccinium

    white oak

    black oak

    blueberry

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    strongly contrasting textural stratification

    noncoherent

    47 - 77

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

    hemic soil materials

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    strongly contrasting particle size class

    0—1

    0—6

    6—47

    47—77

    47—77

    —0—

    —6—

    —41—

    —30—

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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

    2

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    Oe—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. Undecomposed and partially decomposed leaves and other organic debris.
    A—1 to 6 centimeters (0.4 to 2.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) highly organic fine sandy loam; fine roots; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A40677
    Bw1—6 to 9 centimeters (2.4 to 3.5 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A40678
    Bw2—9 to 29 centimeters (3.5 to 11.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A40679
    Bw3—29 to 47 centimeters (11.4 to 18.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) gravelly sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A40680
    2C1—47 to 57 centimeters (18.5 to 22.4 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) gravelly coarse sand; loose; fragments. Lab sample # 40A40681
    2C2—57 to 77 centimeters (22.4 to 30.3 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) gravelly coarse sand, gravelly loamy coarse sand; loose; fragments. Lab sample # 40A40682