IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Colton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978VT025003
  • User Pedon ID: S1978VT025003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1978VT025003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0342
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45896
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 43.0394440
  • Std. Longitude: -72.8966675
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Windham County, Town of Jamaica, 200 yards north, 200 yards east of junction of Stratton road and Forester road
  • Map Unit: 50E—Colton gravelly sandy loam, 25 to 60 percent slopes
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT025—Windham
  • MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT025—Windham County, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Yost and W. Sheehan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Colton
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/6/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Colton
  • Classificaton Date - 5/16/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/16/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    FAGUS

    PICEA

    TSUGA

    Fagus

    Picea

    Tsuga

    beech

    spruce

    hemlock

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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

    33

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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 roots; fragments.
    A2—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) loamy fine sand; massive; very friable; 21.0 roots; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P01797
    O2—5 to 0 centimeters (2.0 to 0.0 inches); fragments.
    O1—10 to 5 centimeters (3.9 to 2.0 inches); fragments.
    B21H—10 to 17 centimeters (3.9 to 6.7 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 21.0 roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 78P01798
    B22HIR—17 to 27 centimeters (6.7 to 10.6 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and red (2.5YR 4/8) gravelly silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 roots; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 78P01799
    B23IR—27 to 44 centimeters (10.6 to 17.3 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) gravelly loamy sand; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 roots; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 78P01800
    B3—44 to 80 centimeters (17.3 to 31.5 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) gravelly sand; single grain; loose; 3.0 roots; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P01801
    2C1—80 to 116 centimeters (31.5 to 45.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; 3.0 roots; 55 percent by volume unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P01802
    2C2—116 to 150 centimeters (45.7 to 59.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) cobbly coarse sand; single grain; loose; 50 percent by volume unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified. Lab sample # 78P01803