IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vershire
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974VT017009
  • User Pedon ID: S1974VT017009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1213
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34822
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 43.9416656
  • Std. Longitude: -72.4980545
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Tunbridge town; Whitney Hill, 1/4 mile northwest of old church, 100 feet northeast of road
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT017—Orange
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT017—Orange County, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. J. Sheehan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Humic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vershire
  • PSC - 25 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/31/2014
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - TUNBRIDGE
  • Classificaton Date - 10/19/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/19/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    bedrock, lithic

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    79 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—23

    23—74

    79—

    —23—

    —51—

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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

    17

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    415

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 roots; 5 percent by volume unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A09220
    Bw1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 roots; 5 percent by volume unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A09221
    Bw2—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 roots; 5 percent by volume unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A09222
    Bw3—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 5 percent by volume unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A09223
    C—74 to 79 centimeters (29.1 to 31.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) loamy fine sand; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A09224
    R—79 centimeters (31.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.