IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nicholville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995VT019001
  • User Pedon ID: S1995VT019001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 96P0013
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68094
  • Print Date: 5/14/2025

    • 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: 44.9533348
  • Std. Longitude: -72.0416641
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 5D—Nicholville very fine sandy loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT019—Orleans
  • MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT019—Orleans County, Vermont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44072-H4—North Troy, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Gourley, Drew Adam, Carinthia Grayson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, frigid Aquic Dystric Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nicholville
  • Classificaton Date - 6/18/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nicholville
  • Classificaton Date - 8/30/1995
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: hillside
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/30/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 42-106
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    16

    20

    80

    216

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    190

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    Ap—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches); dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots between peds and 0.5 fine roots between peds; 3.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, phenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00096
    Bw—19 to 30 centimeters (7.5 to 11.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, phenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00097
    BC1—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); 75 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) silt loam; weak thin platy structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent medium spherical noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron between peds; 15 percent medium spherical noncoherent cemented grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) between peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, phenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00098
    BC2—41 to 69 centimeters (16.1 to 27.2 inches); 18 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) and 67 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silty clay loam, very fine sandy loam; massive; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent coarse irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; 10 percent coarse irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, phenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00099. Horizon stratified broken bands of SICL (10YR3/3)
    C1—69 to 135 centimeters (27.2 to 53.1 inches); 72 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) and 18 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam, silty clay; weak thin platy structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; 10 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented olive gray (5Y 5/2) throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, phenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00100. Horizon stratified. 3-3cm thick bands of SIC (10YR3/3).
    2C2—135 to 174 centimeters (53.1 to 68.5 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loamy very fine sand; massive; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, phenol red. Lab sample # 96P00101