IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Holyoke
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000CT007001
  • User Pedon ID: S2000CT007001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000CT007001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0198
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11706
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 41.5533333
  • Std. Longitude: -72.7388916
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 2,500 feet West of the North end of the Adder Reservoir, East of Matiabesset Trail.
  • Map Unit: 77D—Cheshire-Holyoke complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes, very rocky
  • State: Connecticut
  • County: CT007—Middlesex
  • MLRA: 145—Connecticut Valley
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CT600—State of Connecticut
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41072-E6—Middletown, Connecticut

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Parizek, D. Frigon, notes by S. McVey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, kaolinitic, mesic Lithic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Holyoke
  • PSC - 25 to 34 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/2013
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Holyoke
  • Classificaton Date - 10/12/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: mountain
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: h slight weathered sandstone and shale with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/12/1999 (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

    QURU

    TSCA

    Quercus rubra

    Tsuga canadensis

    northern red oak

    eastern hemlock

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

    fibric soil materials

    ochric epipedon

    sapric soil materials

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—3

    0—10

    3—5

    10—34

    34—

    34—

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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

    22

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    216

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    62

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches);, brown (7.5YR 5/2) rubbed, dry; slightly decomposed plant material; loose, loose; low toughness; very coarse low-continuity interstitial and 21.0 coarse pores; fragments; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 00P01487. texture: HB
    Oa—3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2.0 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) rubbed, dry; highly decomposed plant material; loose, loose; low toughness; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 21.0 fine and medium low-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P01488. texture: HB
    A—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) exterior, very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) crushed, dry; highly organic gravelly silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low toughness; 21.0 very fine roots and very coarse roots throughout; 21.0 fine and medium low-continuity interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume angular 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments and 5 percent by volume angular 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments and 15 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P01489. structure-org: P
    Bw1—10 to 26 centimeters (3.9 to 10.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) exterior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, dry; gravelly silt loam; weak medium, and very coarse granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; medium toughness; 21.0 very fine roots and very coarse roots throughout; 21.0 very fine to medium low-continuity interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume angular 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments and 5 percent by volume angular 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments and 15 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P01490. structure-org: p
    Bw2—26 to 34 centimeters (10.2 to 13.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) exterior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, dry; silt loam; very coarse granular, and weak medium structure; moderately hard, friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; medium toughness; 3.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 21.0 very fine to medium low-continuity interstitial pores; 1 percent by volume angular 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments and 1 percent by volume angular 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments and 10 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P01491. structure-org: p
    2R—34 centimeters (13.4 inches); bedrock; fragments. texture: UB; structure-org: G; Basalt bedrock; water seepage along 2R boundary-rained 2 days ago.