IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chatfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978NH019011
  • User Pedon ID: S1978NH019011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0573
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46127
  • 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: 43.2616653
  • Std. Longitude: -72.3466644
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Unity county farm property
  • State: New Hampshire
  • County: NH019—Sullivan
  • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cardigan
  • PSC - 30 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/2/2015
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dutchess
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: till derived from mixed
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Bedrock: phyllite at 91cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
  • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    91 -

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

    hemic soil materials

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithic contact

    0—5

    0—18

    18—69

    91—

    91—

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    3

    28

    135

    Oe1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 78P03389. Decomposed O.M.
    Oe2—3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; 1 percent by volume flat 2-5-20 millimeter mixed fragments. Not sampled. Fresh and partially decomposed leaves needles and twigs
    A—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior flaggy loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 3 percent by volume 380-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter mixed fragments and 13 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P03390. Small pocket at a depthof 7 in of A1 10YR 3/1 in thick over 1 in thick 10YR 5/1 A2 pocket about 5 in thick; many fine and medium roots; few coarse roots
    Bw1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior channery silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 3 percent by volume 380-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03391. Colors in blotchy pattern; common fine and medium roots; few coarse roots
    Bw2—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior channery silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots; 3 percent by volume 380-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter mixed fragments and 17 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03392. slightly less silt than B21; common fine and medium roots
    Bw3—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior very channery fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 3 percent by volume 380-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter mixed fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P03393. few fine and medium roots
    C—69 to 91 centimeters (27.2 to 35.8 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior loamy fine sand; massive; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 8 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 78P03394. Flat angular flags and stone with same strike and dip as bedrock. Maybe frost fractured bedrock; few fine roots
    2R—91 centimeters (35.8 inches); bedrock; fragments. Boundary between C horizon and R irr and jagged. Bedrock tilted on edge. Depth to hard bedrock ranges from 32 to 41 inches in hole. Not sampled. Gray phyllite bedrock