IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Scitico
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001CT003001
  • User Pedon ID: S2001CT003001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0946
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14400
  • 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: 41.9103753
  • Std. Longitude: -72.5895333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Near center of Pingo.
  • Map Unit: 9—Scitico, Shaker, and Maybid soils, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Connecticut
  • County: CT003—Hartford
  • MLRA: 145—Connecticut Valley
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CT600—State of Connecticut
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41072-H5—Broad Brook, Connecticut

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Donald Parizek, Shawn McVey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, nonacid, mesic Typic Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Scitico
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/26/2012
  • Classifier - Donald C. Parizek
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Scitico
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glaciolacustrine deposits
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Geology: Glacial Lake Hitchcock formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/24/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    endosaturation

    0—23

    23—79

    23—178

    23—178

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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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    24

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    180

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04985; observed in trench
    Ap2—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silty clay loam; 10 percent fine distinct spherical moderately coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions with clear boundaries throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-4-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N04986; observed in trench
    Bg1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior silty clay loam; 30 percent ; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-4-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N04987; observed in trench
    Bg2—38 to 79 centimeters (15.0 to 31.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior silty clay; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N04988; observed in trench
    2BC—79 to 99 centimeters (31.1 to 39.0 inches); 60 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) interior and 20 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior and 20 percent gray (2.5Y 5/1) interior silty clay; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04989; observed in trench
    2C—99 to 178 centimeters (39.0 to 70.1 inches); 40 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) interior and 40 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior and 10 percent brown (10YR 4/3) interior and 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay; fragments. Lab sample # 01N04990; observed in trench