IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Taconic
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001CT005002
  • User Pedon ID: S2001CT005002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: CT01005002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0948
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14402
  • 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: 42.0124855
  • Std. Longitude: -73.4648209
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2,600 feet N on Mt. Washington Road from the intersection of Mt. Washington Road and Mt. Riga Road, 600 feet E of Mt. Washington Road on the top edge of Bald Peak.
  • State: Connecticut
  • County: CT005—Litchfield
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Parizek, S. McVey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, frigid Lithic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Taconic
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, frigid Lithic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 25 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2001
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty ablation till derived from phyllite
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountaintop
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent slight weathered phyllite at 46cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/23/2001 (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
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    VAAN

    GAYLU

    KALA

    QURU

    QUVE

    Vaccinium angustifolium

    Gaylussacia

    Kalmia latifolia

    Quercus rubra

    Quercus velutina

    lowbush blueberry

    huckleberry

    mountain laurel

    northern red oak

    black oak

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

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    46 - 100

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—10

    10—46

    46—100

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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

    10

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    606

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    90

    1200

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    110

    6

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); reddish gray (2.5YR 5/1) crushed moderately decomposed plant material; nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 20.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 medium roots throughout and 15.0 fine roots throughout; 20.0 very fine high-continuity irregular and 5.0 medium high-continuity irregular and 15.0 fine high-continuity irregular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; extremely acid, pH 3.9, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N04998; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) crushed very channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 12.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 very coarse roots throughout and 7.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout and 6.0 coarse roots throughout; 20.0 very fine high-continuity irregular and 5.0 medium high-continuity irregular and 15.0 fine high-continuity irregular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter phyllite fragments and 10 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 150-225-380 millimeter phyllite fragments and 30 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-30-150 millimeter phyllite fragments; noneffervescent; extremely acid, pH 4.0, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N04999; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) crushed very stony silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 very coarse roots throughout and 7.0 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout and 6.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine moderate-continuity irregular and 3.0 fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter phyllite fragments and 15 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-30-150 millimeter phyllite fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 250-400-600 millimeter phyllite fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05000; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed very stony silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine moderate-continuity irregular and 3.0 fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter phyllite fragments and 15 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-30-150 millimeter phyllite fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 250-400-600 millimeter phyllite fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; very abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 01N05001; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2R—46 to 100 centimeters (18.1 to 39.4 inches); extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments; noneffervescent.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small