IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brancroft
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981CT003001
  • User Pedon ID: S1981CT003001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1981CT003001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0108
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50348
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 42.0095404
  • Std. Longitude: -72.6348123
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: town of Suffield, 1630 feet WNW of junction of Mapleton Ave - Halladay Ave, 600 ft N of Halladay Ave
  • Map Unit: 25B—Brancroft silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Connecticut
  • County: CT003—Hartford
  • MLRA: 145—Connecticut Valley
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CT600—State of Connecticut

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Dystric Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brancroft
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/25/2012
  • Classifier - Donald C. Parizek
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Boxford
  • Classificaton Date - 8/31/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/31/1981 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    CORNU

    FESTU

    FRAXI

    Acer rubrum

    Cornus

    Festuca

    Fraxinus

    red maple

    dogwood

    fescue

    ash

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    endosaturation

    0—15

    15—81

    43—168

    43—168

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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

    4

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    39.6

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00543
    Bw1—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; slow permeability; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00544
    Bw2—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; slow permeability; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00545
    Bw3—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic parts to medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; slow permeability; 0.5 roots; 3 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent medium faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) iron depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00546
    Bw4—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); 50 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; 21 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine and medium distinct and 21 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) fine and medium distinct and 21 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) fine and medium distinct and 21 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) coarse distinct and 21 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) coarse distinct and 21 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) coarse distinct mottles; weak very coarse prismatic parts to thin platy structure; firm; slow permeability; 0.5 roots; 10 percent medium distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2) iron depletions and 10 percent medium faint brown (7.5YR 5/4) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2) iron depletions on faces of peds and 10 percent 7.5YR (7.5YR) on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00547
    C1—81 to 109 centimeters (31.9 to 42.9 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; 21 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) coarse distinct and 21 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) fine and medium distinct and 21 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) coarse distinct and 21 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine and medium distinct mottles; weak very coarse prismatic parts to thin platy structure; firm; slow permeability; 0.5 roots; 10 percent medium distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2) iron depletions on faces of peds and 10 percent medium faint brown (7.5YR 5/4) masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds and 10 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00548
    C2—109 to 168 centimeters (42.9 to 66.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and olive (5Y 5/3) silt loam; 1 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) fine and medium distinct and 1 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) fine and medium distinct mottles; massive parts to thin platy; firm; slow permeability; 10 percent fine distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2) iron depletions on faces of peds and 10 percent fine faint brown (7.5YR 5/4) masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds and 10 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6. Lab sample # 82P00549