IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vershire
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995VT019005
  • User Pedon ID: S1995VT019005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1995VT019005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 96P0017
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68098
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 44.9855537
  • Std. Longitude: -72.0977783
  • 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44072-H1—West Charleston, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bob Long, Drew Adam
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vershire
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • 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
  • Microfeature: mound
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: h slight weathered metamorphic, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments: 0.50 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 - 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

    ACSA3

    FRAM2

    Acer saccharum

    Fraxinus americana

    sugar maple

    white ash

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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

    14

    500

    250

    430

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    9

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 96P00118
    A—5 to 12 centimeters (2.0 to 4.7 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium and coarse roots throughout; 21.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 3 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00119. Thin discontinuous 10YR4/1 E horizon present
    A—5 to 12 centimeters (2.0 to 4.7 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 96P00122
    Bw—12 to 42 centimeters (4.7 to 16.5 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) silt loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout; 21.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00120
    BC—42 to 70 centimeters (16.5 to 27.6 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) channery silt loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00121
    R—70 centimeters (27.6 inches); fragments.