IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Paxton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981VT021005
  • User Pedon ID: S1981VT021005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0749
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49593
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 43.5655556
  • Std. Longitude: -72.9511108
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Rutland County, VT: Clarendon
  • Map Unit: 58D—Colton-Duxbury complex, 15 to 25 percent slopes
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT021—Rutland
  • MLRA: 142—St. Lawrence-Champlain Plain
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-PAS—Paul Smiths, New York
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT021—Rutland County, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Pratt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Paxton
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/3/2013
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Colrain
  • Taxon Kind - variant
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy till derived from metamorphic rock over high base status lodgment till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    densic material

    noncoherent

    91 - 187

    - 96 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    aquic conditions

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—23

    23—91

    91—128

    91—187

    128—187

    —23—

    —68—

    —37—

    —96—

    —59—
    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

    12

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    —

    266

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; gravelly fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 roots; 19 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P4464. many roots
    Bw1—23 to 42 centimeters (9.1 to 16.5 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) interior very cobbly fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 18 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 24 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P4465. few roots
    Bw2—42 to 73 centimeters (16.5 to 28.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 roots; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 24 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P4466. few roots
    Bw3—73 to 91 centimeters (28.7 to 35.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior extremely cobbly fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 3 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 14 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 46 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P4467. few roots
    2Cd—91 to 128 centimeters (35.8 to 50.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior gravelly very fine sandy loam; strong coarse platy structure; firm; 0.2 roots; 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 17 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P4468. very few to few roots
    3Cd—128 to 187 centimeters (50.4 to 73.6 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior very cobbly fine sandy loam; massive; very friable; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 13 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 19 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 81P4469