IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Colonel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000VT003001
  • User Pedon ID: S2000VT003001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000VT003001
  • User Site Association ID: VT Long Term Monitoring Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P1237
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 12733
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024
  • 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: 43.0891180
  • Std. Longitude: -73.0193290
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lye Brook Wilderness, Sunderland, 150 miles West of Bourne Pond Trail.
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT003—Bennington
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT003—Bennington County, Vermont
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lynn, Scheyer, Villars, Negra
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, isotic, frigid, shallow Typic Endoaquods
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Colonel
  • PSC - 34 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/29/2015
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Peru
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Aquic Haplorthods
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/2000
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/12/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ACPE

    BEPAC2

    DRIN5

    PIRU

    VILA11

    Acer pensylvanicum

    Betula papyrifera var. cordifolia

    Dryopteris intermedia

    Picea rubens

    Viburnum lantanoides

    striped maple

    mountain paper birch

    intermediate woodfern

    red spruce

    hobblebush

    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    58 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    densic contact

    0—24

    9—24

    24—58

    58—

    —24—

    —15—

    —35—

    —-

    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

    4

    20

    21

    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; very friable; 3.0 very fine to coarse roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P07200; moist when described;. partially decomposed leaves, needles, twigs.
    Oa—3 to 9 centimeters (1.2 to 3.5 inches); black (N 2/0) highly decomposed plant material; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine to coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P07201; moist when described;. pH: LT.
    E—9 to 24 centimeters (3.5 to 9.4 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine to medium roots; 11 percent by volume , 17 percent by weight 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P07202; moist when described;. rock fragment: 5% 2-mm-10 inches; pH: LT.
    Bhs—24 to 27 centimeters (9.4 to 10.6 inches); black (5YR 2/1) fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; strongly fluid; 1.0 very fine to medium roots; 13 percent by volume , 20 percent by weight 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P07203; moist when described;. rock fragments: 2mm-10%; pH: LT; boundary: AI-in places (tongues).
    Bs1—27 to 35 centimeters (10.6 to 13.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; strongly fluid; 1.0 very fine to medium roots; 13 percent by volume , 20 percent by weight 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P07204; moist when described;. rock fragments: 5% 2mm-10 inches; pH: LT; Bs1 thickness varies from 1-4 inches (2-10cm).
    Bs2—35 to 58 centimeters (13.8 to 22.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) fine sandy loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately smeary; 1.0 very fine and fine roots; 1 percent faint dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) clay bridges in root channels and/or pores and 23 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay bridges; 13 percent by volume , 20 percent by weight 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P07205; moist when described;. rock fragments: 5% 2mm-10 inches; pH: LT.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1368080; continuous - phpvsfiid 1368080
    Cd1—58 to 96 centimeters (22.8 to 37.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine sandy loam; massive; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 2 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) pressure faces and 2 percent faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2); 13 percent by volume , 20 percent by weight 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P07206; moist when described;. rock fragments: 5% 2mm-10 inches.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1368082; continuous - phpvsfiid 1368083; continuous - phpvsfiid 1368082; continuous - phpvsfiid 1368083
    Cd2—96 to 152 centimeters (37.8 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine sandy loam; massive; firm; 2 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) pressure faces; 13 percent by volume , 20 percent by weight 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 00P07207; moist when described;. rock fragments: 5% 2mm-10 inches.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1368084; continuous - phpvsfiid 1368084