IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Enfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969CT011001
  • User Pedon ID: S1969CT011001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1969CT011001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1241
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34850
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 41.4491083
  • Std. Longitude: -71.8921833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Town of North Stonington, one-half mile southeast of junction 201 and 2, one-quarter mile east of Route 2 on dirt road, 45 feet south of cemetery and 200 feet west of Shunock River.
  • Map Unit: HcB—Haven silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Connecticut
  • County: CT011—New London
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CT011—New London County, Connecticut

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Gonick, C. Reynolds, and P. Camphell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, active, 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 #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Enfield
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/20/2012
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Enfield
  • Classificaton Date - 5/6/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy eolian deposits over sandy and gravelly glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: kame terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: riser
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/6/1969 (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

    ACER

    BETUL

    PICEA

    PIRE

    Acer

    Betula

    Picea

    Pinus resinosa

    maple

    birch

    spruce

    red pine

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

    fibric soil materials

    ochric epipedon

    hemic soil materials

    cambic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    strongly contrasting particle size class

    0—3

    0—18

    3—5

    18—71

    71—141

    71—141

    —3—

    —18—

    —2—

    —53—

    —70—

    —70—
    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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    46

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    65

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A09433. 3 to 1 inches of red pine needles and other debris.
    Oe—3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A09434. 1 to 0 inch of decomposed and partially decomposed litter.
    Ap—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A09435
    Bw1—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A09436
    Bw2—25 to 45 centimeters (9.8 to 17.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A09437
    Bw3—45 to 62 centimeters (17.7 to 24.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A09438
    Bw4—62 to 71 centimeters (24.4 to 28.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) silt loam; massive; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A09439
    2C1—71 to 89 centimeters (28.0 to 35.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) very gravelly fine sandy loam; single grain; loose; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A09440
    2C2—89 to 141 centimeters (35.0 to 55.5 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) very gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; 7 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A09441