IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Agawam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985VT027017
  • User Pedon ID: S1985VT027017
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1985VT027017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0873
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57139
  • 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: 43.3530540
  • Std. Longitude: -72.4027786
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Windsor County, Vermont, Town of Weathersfield.
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT027—Windsor
  • MLRA: 145—Connecticut Valley
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT027—Windsor County, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Henry J. Ferguson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Agawam
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2012
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Windsor
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/1985
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glaciofluvial sands
  • Landform: plane surface of a broad terrace
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/12/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    abrupt textural change

    0—25

    25—48

    48—

    —25—

    —24—

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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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    101

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    315

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Bw1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04683
    Bw2—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) sand; massive; very friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, chlorophenol red; gradual smooth boundary.
    C—74 to 152 centimeters (29.1 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) sand; massive; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red.