IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Londonderry
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000VT015001
  • User Pedon ID: S2000VT015001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000VT015001
  • User Site Association ID: VT Long Term Monitoring Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P1234
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 12730
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Mt. Mansfield Toll Road site.
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT015—Lamoille
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT015—Lamoille County, Vermont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44072-E7—Mount Mansfield, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Villars, Lynn, Scheyer, Negra, Gourley, Simmons
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive Lithic Cryorthents
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Londonderry
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive Lithic Cryorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/31/2000 (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

    ABBA

    COPTI

    DRCA3

    PIRU

    Abies balsamea

    Coptis

    Dryopteris campyloptera

    Picea rubens

    balsam fir

    goldthread

    mountain woodfern

    red spruce

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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

    35

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    3600

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    300

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    Oe1—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2); massive; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots and very coarse roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P07179. texture: MPM; structure: fibers; pH: <5.0
    Oe2—7 to 16 centimeters (2.8 to 6.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1); weak fine granular structure; very friable; strongly fluid; 3.0 very fine roots and very coarse roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P07180. texture: HPM; pH: <5.0
    E1—16 to 43 centimeters (6.3 to 16.9 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) gravelly very fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine to medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 00P07181. pH: <5.0; Quartzite coarse fragments gravel size.
    E2—43 to 47 centimeters (16.9 to 18.5 inches); dark reddish gray (2.5YR 4/1) channery very fine sandy loam; 3 percent fine and medium mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent medium prominent red (2.5YR 4/8) masses of oxidized iron; 25 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P07182. pH: <5.0
    R—47 centimeters (18.5 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 00P07183