IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brancroft
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981CT003002
  • User Pedon ID: S1981CT003002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1981CT003002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0109
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50349
  • 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: 41.8564873
  • Std. Longitude: -72.6473134
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: town of Suffield, 1100 feet east on Kent Ave from junction of Kent Ave - Rt. 75, 100 ft south of Kent 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-loamy, 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 #: 2
  • 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
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Dystric Eutrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lacustrine deposits
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    FESTU

    Festuca

    fescue

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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—18

    18—91

    36—152

    36—152

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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

    3

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    41.1

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00550
    Bw1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00551
    Bw2—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; 3 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) coarse distinct and 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) coarse distinct and 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine and medium distinct and 3 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) coarse distinct and 3 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) fine and medium distinct mottles; weak very coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; slow permeability; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00552
    2Bw3—51 to 91 centimeters (20.1 to 35.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) coarse distinct and 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) coarse distinct and 3 percent brown (7.5YR 5/2) coarse distinct and 3 percent pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) coarse distinct and 3 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) coarse distinct mottles; weak very coarse prismatic parts to thin platy structure; firm; slow permeability; 10 percent fine distinct black (N 2/0) manganese coatings; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00553
    2C1—91 to 112 centimeters (35.8 to 44.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 3 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) coarse distinct and 3 percent brown (7.5YR 5/2) coarse distinct mottles; weak very thin platy structure; firm; slow permeability; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00554
    2C2—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 21 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4) medium and coarse distinct and 21 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium and coarse distinct and 21 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium and coarse distinct mottles; weak very thin platy structure; firm; slow permeability; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8. Lab sample # 82P00555