IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chatfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982CT007005
  • User Pedon ID: S1982CT007005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - LIMS
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0387
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 52624
  • 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: 41.4147224
  • Std. Longitude: -72.5108337
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Middlesex County, CT; Town of Chester; Cockaponset State Forest Project area, control watershed; Service Site 10.
  • Map Unit: 73E—Charlton-Chatfield complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes, very rocky
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Connecticut
  • County: CT007—Middlesex
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CT600—State of Connecticut

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. Roberts and R. Shook
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chatfield
  • PSC - 25 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/3/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chatfield
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1982
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1982 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    67 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—11

    11—67

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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

    10

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    146

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    270

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    Oe—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior moderately decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P01763. common to many fine and medium roots; few coarse roots
    A—6 to 11 centimeters (2.4 to 4.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior highly organic cobbly loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2.5 medium and coarse roots and 5.5 fine roots; 3 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 8 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P01764. many fine roots; common medium and coarse roots
    Bw1—11 to 26 centimeters (4.3 to 10.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior cobbly fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.5 medium and coarse roots and 5.5 fine roots; 3 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 8 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P01765, 83P01766. many fine roots; common medium and coarse roots
    Bw2—26 to 41 centimeters (10.2 to 16.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior cobbly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.5 medium and coarse roots and 5.5 fine roots; 3 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 8 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P01765, 83P01766. many fine roots; common medium and coarse roots
    Bw3—41 to 67 centimeters (16.1 to 26.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior cobbly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots and 2.5 coarse roots; 3 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 8 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P01767. common fine and medium roots; common coarse roots
    2R—67 to 73 centimeters (26.4 to 28.7 inches); bedrock; fragments. Texture is hard schist bedrock.