IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Whitman
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000CT013001
  • User Pedon ID: S2000CT013001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000CT013001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P1225
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 12721
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 41.7935104
  • Std. Longitude: -72.2304459
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Uconn Agronomy farm
  • Map Unit: WsB—Woodbridge fine sandy loam, 0 to 8 percent slopes, very stony
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Connecticut
  • County: CT013—Tolland
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CT600—State of Connecticut
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41072-G2—Spring Hill, Connecticut

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D.F., D.P., M.F., S.M.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Typic Humaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Whitman
  • PSC - 25 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/2012
  • Classifier - Donald c. Parizek
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Whitman
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: gully
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: occasional ponding for long periods begining in jan
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/24/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - 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

    2MOSS

    ACRU

    ACSA3

    BETH

    CELAS

    EUBU6

    IMCA

    LIBE3

    LINDE2

    OSCI

    PAQU2

    ROMU

    TORA2

    ULMUS

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    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharum

    Berberis thunbergii

    Celastrus

    Euonymus bungeanum

    Impatiens capensis

    Lindera benzoin

    Lindera

    Osmunda cinnamomea

    Parthenocissus quinquefolia

    Rosa multiflora

    Toxicodendron radicans

    Ulmus

    Moss

    red maple

    sugar maple

    Japanese barberry

    bittersweet

    winterberry

    jewelweed

    northern spicebush

    spicebush

    cinnamon fern

    Virginia creeper

    multiflora rose

    eastern poison ivy

    elm

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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    densic materials

    redox concentrations

    0—25

    25—71

    25—203

    71—203

    71—203

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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

    1

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    207

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    0

    1195

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face, dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; mucky silt loam; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and very coarse roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular 75-162-250 millimeter gneiss fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.7, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P07104; observed in trench
    Bg1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face cobbly loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots top of horizon; 2.0 fine pores; 1 percent fine and medium irregular yellowish red (5YR 4/6) in cracks and 1 percent medium irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) in cracks; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter gneiss fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular 75-162-250 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P07105; observed in trench
    Bg2—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 fine roots between peds; 3.0 fine pores; 21 percent coarse irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) in cracks and 3 percent coarse irregular gray (10YR 6/1) in cracks and 1 percent medium irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) in cracks; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular 75-162-250 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter gneiss fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P07106; observed in trench. few fine MSMN 2.5YR 3/2, PF, RF.
    Cdg—71 to 125 centimeters (28.0 to 49.2 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) broken face fine sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 fine pores; 10 percent clay films on rock fragments; 21 percent coarse irregular dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) in cracks and 3 percent coarse irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) in cracks; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P07107; observed in trench. many 10R 3/1 MSMN PF, RF; streak 2 inches wide 12 inches long, 2.5Y 6/1 interior, 20 inches apart; 5.0+, 5.0+, 5.0+ penetrometer.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 748881; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 748881
    Cd—125 to 203 centimeters (49.2 to 79.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face fine sandy loam; massive, and weak medium platy; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 fine pores; 3 percent coarse irregular gray (2.5Y 6/1) in cracks and 1 percent medium irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) in cracks; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular 75-162-250 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 00P07108; observed in trench. many 10YR 3/2 MSMN PF, RF