IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Westminster
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002CT005002
  • User Pedon ID: S2002CT005002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2002CT005002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - LIMS
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N1097
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14733
  • User Project ID: 2018
  • Project Name: MLRA 144A 149B- Archive soil climate and water monitoring data
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 42.0037222
  • Std. Longitude: -73.0648611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Ketchell Control #2
  • Map Unit: 73C—Charlton-Chatfield complex, 0 to 15 percent slopes, very rocky
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Connecticut
  • County: CT005—Litchfield
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CT005—Litchfield County, Connecticut
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42073-A1—Tolland Center, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Shawn McVey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Lithic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.3a
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Westminster
  • PSC - 5 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/13/2003
  • Classifier - Shawn McVey
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hollis
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, active, mesic Humic Lithic Dystrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 2 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/11/2002
  • Classifier - Shawn McVey
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till over gneiss and/or schist
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated gneiss at 38cm
  • Surface Fragments: 7.00 percent 250- to 600-millimeter 5.00 percent 600
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/11/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    O1

    O2

    A

    2R

    0

    2

    5

    38

    2

    5

    38

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    O1

    O2

    A

    2R

    0

    2

    5

    38

    2

    5

    38

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    O1

    O2

    A

    2R

    0

    2

    5

    38

    2

    5

    38

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACSA3

    BEAL2

    CAPE6

    FAGR

    QURU

    TSCA

    UVULA

    Acer saccharum

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Carex pensylvanica

    Fagus grandifolia

    Quercus rubra

    Tsuga canadensis

    Uvularia

    sugar maple

    yellow birch

    Pennsylvania sedge

    American beech

    northern red oak

    eastern hemlock

    bellwort

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    38 -

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

    umbric epipedon

    lithic contact

    2—38

    38—

    —36—

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    6/11/2002

    6/11/2002

    10

    50

    hobo pendant ua-001

    hobo pendant ua-001

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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

    5

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    O1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N05766
    O2—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) loam; moderate medium granular structure; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine low-continuity interstitial and 3.0 fine low-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N05767
    A—5 to 38 centimeters (2.0 to 15.0 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 1.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular and 1.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05768
    2R—38 centimeters (15.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.