IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brookfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005CT015001
  • User Pedon ID: S2005CT015001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: CT05015001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0111
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16872
  • 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: 42.0129738
  • Std. Longitude: -72.0786972
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 60 ft West of Rte. 198 and 5,350 ft South of CT-MA State line, in the town of Woodstock, CT.
  • State: Connecticut
  • County: CT015—Windham
  • 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, Donald Parizek
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, parasesquic, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brookfield
  • PSC - 32 to 107 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/30/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brookfield
  • Classificaton Date - 10/21/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: ablation till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent moderate weathered schist, unspecified
  • Geology: Brimfield Schist formation of the Obr group.
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 180- to 500-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/21/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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
  • Current Weather - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 7
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    BELE

    CAPE6

    CARYA

    CORNU

    DEPU2

    GAYLU

    PAQU2

    QUAL

    QURU

    QUVE

    RUFL

    SAAL5

    VAAN

    VIAC

    Acer rubrum

    Betula lenta

    Carex pensylvanica

    Carya

    Cornus

    Dennstaedtia punctilobula

    Gaylussacia

    Parthenocissus quinquefolia

    Quercus alba

    Quercus rubra

    Quercus velutina

    Rubus flagellaris

    Sassafras albidum

    Vaccinium angustifolium

    Viburnum acerifolium

    red maple

    sweet birch

    Pennsylvania sedge

    hybrid hickory

    dogwood

    eastern hayscented fern

    huckleberry

    Virginia creeper

    white oak

    northern red oak

    black oak

    northern dewberry

    sassafras

    lowbush blueberry

    mapleleaf viburnum

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

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    110 - 200

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    7—12

    12—70

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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

    4

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    260

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    190

    1220

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    160

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    Oe—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) crushed, very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) crushed, dry; moderately decomposed plant material; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 45.0 very fine roots throughout and 40.0 fine roots throughout; 50.0 very fine high-continuity irregular and 40.0 fine high-continuity irregular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N00508; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Thin (2cm) Oa horizon at bottom of Oe horizon was combined with Oe. Color of Oa horizon is 7.5YR 2.5/1.
    A—7 to 12 centimeters (2.8 to 4.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) crushed, dark gray (5YR 4/1) crushed, dry; loam; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 35.0 very fine roots throughout and 25.0 medium roots throughout and 30.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 20.0 very fine moderate-continuity irregular and 2.0 fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; 2 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-15-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N00509; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Bromcresol green confirms pH 5.0.
    Bw1—12 to 37 centimeters (4.7 to 14.6 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) crushed, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) crushed, dry; flaggy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 15.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout and 5.0 coarse roots throughout; 10.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular and 1.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 6 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 6 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 150-250-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-15-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N00510; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—37 to 70 centimeters (14.6 to 27.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) crushed, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, dry; flaggy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 1.0 very fine low-continuity tubular and 1.0 medium low-continuity tubular and 1.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 3 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 6 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-15-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 6 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 150-250-380 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; strongly acid, pH 5.3, chlorophenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N00511; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—70 to 110 centimeters (27.6 to 43.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) crushed, brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) crushed, dry; flaggy fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 9 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-15-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 9 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 9 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 150-250-380 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; strongly acid, pH 5.3, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N00512; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Rj—110 to 200 centimeters (43.3 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; very slow permeability; extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified.; observed in pit, small