IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Couchsachraga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993NY031009
  • User Pedon ID: S1993NY031009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1993NY031009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0301
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66479
  • 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: 44.0938873
  • Std. Longitude: -73.9794464
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Town of Keene, southeast facing slide areas of Cliff Mountain, 1300 feet due north of a point on Upper Twin Brook, that is 1.4 miles upstream from the junction of Upper and Lower Twin Brook, 300 feet up slide face.
  • State: New York
  • County: NY031—Essex
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NY031—Essex County, New York
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44073-A8—Mount Marcy, New York

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Couchsachraga
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, mixed Lithic Humicryods
  • Classificaton Date - 12/12/1993
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/12/1993 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABBA

    ACPE

    BEPO

    PIRU

    SORBU

    Abies balsamea

    Acer pensylvanicum

    Betula populifolia

    Picea rubens

    Sorbus

    balsam fir

    striped maple

    gray birch

    red spruce

    mountain ash

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

    spodic horizon

    10—23

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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

    79

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    920

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    1245

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    0

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) Error; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P01872
    Oa—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); dark reddish gray (2.5YR 3/1) Error; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P01873. Combined thickness of the O horizon is 2 to 20 inches thick
    Bh—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); very dark gray (5YR 3/1) loamy sand; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; strongly fluid; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P01874. 4 to 10 inches thick.
    R—23 centimeters (9.1 inches); fragments.