IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nicholville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995VT019002
  • User Pedon ID: S1995VT019002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1995VT019002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 96P0014
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68095
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 44.9458351
  • Std. Longitude: -72.3922195
  • 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, Carinthia Grayson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, isotic, frigid Aquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nicholville
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • 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
  • Microfeature: mound
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • 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 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABBA

    ACSA3

    BEAL2

    PRSE2

    Abies balsamea

    Acer saccharum

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Prunus serotina

    balsam fir

    sugar maple

    yellow birch

    black cherry

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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

    16

    200

    30

    210

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    330

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    Oi—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 96P00103. Slightly decomposed leaves & twigs (sample collected)
    A—4 to 9 centimeters (1.6 to 3.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 21.0 medium and coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00104
    E—9 to 15 centimeters (3.5 to 5.9 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 3.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 96P00105
    BS—15 to 27 centimeters (5.9 to 10.6 inches); 85 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) and 15 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00106. Top 2cm are dark reddish brown 5YR3/3
    BC1—27 to 44 centimeters (10.6 to 17.3 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) channery very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 21.0 medium and coarse roots throughout; 0.5 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, phenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00107
    C1—44 to 58 centimeters (17.3 to 22.8 inches); 80 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) very fine sandy loam; massive; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; 5 percent coarse spherical noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, phenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00108
    2C2—58 to 72 centimeters (22.8 to 28.3 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) channery silty clay loam; massive; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, phenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00109
    3C3—72 to 160 centimeters (28.3 to 63.0 inches); 77 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and 12 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) very fine sandy loam, silty clay loam; massive; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron in cracks; 1 percent coarse spherical noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) at top of horizon; fragments. Lab sample # 96P00110. Horizon is stratified. 3 bands of SICL olive brown (2.5Y4/3) each 5cm thick