IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Birdsall
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992NH009001
  • User Pedon ID: S1992NH009001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992NH009001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0995
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65235
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 43.7917368
  • Std. Longitude: -72.1734221
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1.55 miles S of Lyme on NH10. About 500 feet W of road. About 1 mile E of Connecticut River.
  • State: New Hampshire
  • County: NH009—Grafton
  • MLRA: 145—Connecticut Valley
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NH009—Grafton County, New Hampshire

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joe Homer, Peter Whitcomb, and Steve Handley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Typic Humaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Birdsall
  • PSC - 30 to 105 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2015
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Birdsall
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, nonacid Mollic Endoaquents
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/1992
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty lacustrine deposits derived from igneous and metamorphic rock
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/27/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - wetlands
  • 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

    CAREX

    TYPHA

    Carex

    Typha

    sedge

    cattail

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

    fibric soil materials

    aquic conditions

    endosaturation

    mollic epipedon

    0—5

    0—105

    0—105

    5—26

    —5—

    —105—

    —105—

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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

    1

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    174

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    270

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) muck; 1 percent gray (5Y 5/1) fine prominent mottles; weak medium granular structure; soft; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P06250
    A1—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) mucky silt loam; weak medium granular structure; soft; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P06251
    A2—13 to 26 centimeters (5.1 to 10.2 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) silt loam; 1 percent gray (5Y 5/1) fine prominent mottles; weak medium granular structure; soft; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P06252
    Cg1—26 to 37 centimeters (10.2 to 14.6 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) silt loam; 3 percent gray (5Y 5/1) medium distinct and 3 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine and medium prominent mottles; massive; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P06253
    Cg2—37 to 48 centimeters (14.6 to 18.9 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) silt loam; 3 percent gray (5Y 5/1) medium distinct and 3 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine and medium distinct mottles; massive; firm; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P06254
    Cg3—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) silt loam; 3 percent gray (N 5/0) medium distinct and 3 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) medium prominent mottles; massive; firm; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P06255
    Cg4—76 to 110 centimeters (29.9 to 43.3 inches); silt loam; 3 percent gray (N 5/0) medium distinct and 3 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) medium prominent mottles; massive; firm; 3.0 very fine roots; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 92P06256