IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gloucester
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958CT013003
  • User Pedon ID: S1958CT013003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1958CT013003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5407
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42652
  • 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: 42.0191460
  • Std. Longitude: -72.3303375
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 0.7 mile west of State Line Pond and about 150 feet south of Crow Hill Road in a forested area.
  • Map Unit: 73C—Charlton-Chatfield complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes, very rocky
  • 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42072-A3—Monson, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Shearin
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gloucester
  • PSC - 29 to 104 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/22/2016
  • Classifier - Donald Parizek
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gloucester
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy and gravelly melt-out till derived from granite and gneiss and/or schist
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • 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

    CASTA

    PTERI

    QUAL

    QUVE

    VACCI

    Castanea

    Pteridium

    Quercus alba

    Quercus velutina

    Vaccinium

    chestnut

    brackenfern

    white oak

    black oak

    blueberry

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—9

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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

    5

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    228.6

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    90

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Raw leaves or other debris.
    Oe—1 to 4 centimeters (0.4 to 1.6 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) moderately decomposed plant material; fine roots; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A40683
    A—4 to 9 centimeters (1.6 to 3.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) very gravelly loamy sand; fine roots; 45 percent by volume 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.8, pH meter; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A40684
    Bw1—9 to 19 centimeters (3.5 to 7.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) very gravelly loamy fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 40 percent by volume 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A40685
    Bw2—19 to 32 centimeters (7.5 to 12.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) very gravelly loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 40 percent by volume 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A40686
    Bw3—32 to 57 centimeters (12.6 to 22.4 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) very gravelly loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 45 percent by volume 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A40687
    BC—57 to 73 centimeters (22.4 to 28.7 inches); gray (N 6/0) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) very gravelly loamy sand; very friable; 45 percent by volume 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter. Lab sample # 40A40688. The olive brown streaks and pockets apparently are in old root channels and surrounding weathered gneiss fragments.
    C—73 to 106 centimeters (28.7 to 41.7 inches); gray (N 6/0) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) very gravelly sand; firm; 50 percent by volume 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter. Lab sample # 40A40689