IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vershire
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995VT019004
  • User Pedon ID: S1995VT019004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 96P0016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68097
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 44.9847221
  • Std. Longitude: -72.0947189
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 94C—Vershire-Glover complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes, very rocky
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT019—Orleans
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT019—Orleans County, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Carinthia Grayson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, frigid Humic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vershire
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vershire
  • Classificaton Date - 8/31/1995
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: h slight weathered metamorphic, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/31/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 43-179
  • 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

    9

    500

    150

    456

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    320

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    Ap1—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots between peds; 21.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P00113
    Ap2—7 to 23 centimeters (2.8 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; silt loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P00114
    Bw—23 to 62 centimeters (9.1 to 24.4 inches); 85 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), 15 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), dry; channery silt loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 7 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00115
    Bw—23 to 62 centimeters (9.1 to 24.4 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 96P00117
    Cr—62 to 74 centimeters (24.4 to 29.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) extremely channery silt loam; weak thin platy structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 65 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00116
    R—74 centimeters (29.1 inches); fragments.