IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Westbury
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977VT025007
  • User Pedon ID: S1977VT025007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0056
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45066
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 42.8555565
  • Std. Longitude: -72.6222229
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Windham County, Vermont, Town of Brattleboro; 1 mile west of West Brattleboro, 300 Feet north of Ames Hill Road, 5200 feet west of US Route 5.
  • Map Unit: 25B—Westbury fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT025—Windham
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT025—Windham County, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Sheehan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Typic Fragiaquods
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Westbury
  • Classificaton Date - 2/6/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Woodbridge
  • Classificaton Date - 9/21/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glacial till
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/29/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    8

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    226

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 roots; 10 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary.
    B21hir—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) fine sandy loam; 21 percent olive gray (5Y 4/2) medium distinct and 21 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) medium distinct mottles; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately smeary; 21.0 roots; 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P00314
    A'2—30 to 38 centimeters (11.8 to 15.0 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) fine sandy loam; 21 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 roots; 10 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Bx—38 to 71 centimeters (15.0 to 28.0 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) gravelly fine sandy loam; 21 percent olive gray (5Y 4/2) medium distinct and 21 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) medium prominent mottles; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate thick platy structure; very firm; brittle; 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary.
    C—71 to 188 centimeters (28.0 to 74.0 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) gravelly fine sandy loam; 21 percent olive gray (5Y 4/2) medium distinct and 21 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) medium distinct mottles; massive; friable; 25 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, bromthymol blue.