IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brookfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004CT011003
  • User Pedon ID: S2004CT011003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N1031
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16875
  • 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: 41.5359154
  • Std. Longitude: -72.3102798
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Rte 11 North. About 100 ft East of Rte 11 (North bound) and 1350 ft South of West Rd overpass in Town of Colchester, CT.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Connecticut
  • County: CT011—New London
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CT600—State of Connecticut

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Shawn McVey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, parasesquic, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brookfield
  • PSC - 33 to 108 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/3/2015
  • Classifier - Donald Parizek
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Charlton
  • Classificaton Date - 8/30/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: melt-out till
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent moderate weathered schist, unspecified
  • Geology: Brimfield Schist formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/30/2004 (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 - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 24
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    sapric soil materials

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—8

    0—20

    20—55

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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

    2

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    112.8

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    90

    1250

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    170

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    Oa—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); highly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 04N05531
    A—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); sandy loam; fragments. Lab sample # 04N05532
    Bw1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); sandy loam; fragments. Lab sample # 04N05533
    Bw2—36 to 55 centimeters (14.2 to 21.7 inches); loam; fragments. Lab sample # 04N05534
    2C—55 to 100 centimeters (21.7 to 39.4 inches); loamy sand; fragments. Lab sample # 04N05535