IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Paxton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993CT005001
  • User Pedon ID: S1993CT005001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1993CT005001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0717
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66060
  • 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: 41.5497917
  • Std. Longitude: -73.3682722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Bridgewater; hill farm, 70 meters N of barn and 500 feet E of road.
  • Map Unit: 84B—Paxton and Montauk fine sandy loams, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Connecticut
  • County: CT005—Litchfield
  • 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41073-E3—Roxbury, Connecticut

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic, shallow Oxyaquic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Paxton
  • PSC - 25 to 42 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2013
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Paxton
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/10/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till derived from granite and/or gneiss and/or schist
  • Landscape: drumlin field
  • Landform: drumlin
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/10/1993 (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

    CIRSI

    Cirsium

    thistle

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    42 - 156

    - 114 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    densic materials

    aquic conditions

    0—23

    23—42

    42—

    42—156

    42—156

    —23—

    —19—

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    —114—

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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

    5

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    268.1

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    146

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; fine sandy loam; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; soft, very friable; 10.0 very fine and fine roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P04970. 500 lbs per square inch.
    Bw—23 to 32 centimeters (9.1 to 12.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 pores; 6 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P04971. greater than 700 lbs per square inch; common krotovina throughout horizon.
    BC—32 to 42 centimeters (12.6 to 16.5 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; fine sandy loam; massive parts to weak fine subangular blocky; hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; silt coats on faces of peds and in pores and 25 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P04972. greater than 700 lbs per square inch.
    Cd1—42 to 60 centimeters (16.5 to 23.6 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; fine sandy loam; weak very thick platy structure; very hard, very firm; brittle; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 15 percent silt coats in root channels and/or pores and 37 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) iron stains and 37 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6) iron stains and 55 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P04973. greater than 700 lbs per square inch; saprolitic muscoulet and other saprolitic rocks; pores have few channels and rare chambers (1 mm diameter).
    Cd2—60 to 105 centimeters (23.6 to 41.3 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), dry; cobbly fine sandy loam; moderate very thick platy structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 60 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P04974. greater than 700 lbs per square inch; slightly moist; roots in worm channels; common saprolitic fragments; live earthworms found in horizon.
    Cd3—105 to 156 centimeters (41.3 to 61.4 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) sandy loam; massive; friable; 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 9 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified. Lab sample # 93P04975. 600 lbs per square inch.
    Cd4—156 to 161 centimeters (61.4 to 63.4 inches); fine sandy loam; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 93P04976