IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Limerick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006CT003001
  • User Pedon ID: S2006CT003001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0027
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18853
  • 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: 41.8275833
  • Std. Longitude: -72.6313858
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Hartford County, Connecticut town of South Windsor; approximately 2,000 Feet East of the Connecticut River and 200 feet south of Vibert Road in a crop field.
  • State: Connecticut
  • County: CT003—Hartford

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Parizek, C. Morgan, D. Surabian, B. Potocki, A. Cadman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Fluvaquentic 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 - Limerick
  • PSC - 32 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/2012
  • Classifier - Donald C. Parizek
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: dip
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/28/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 19
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    endosaturation

    ochric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    cambic horizon

    0—165

    0—32

    0—165

    32—50

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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

    0

    —

    —

    122

    —

    360

    1250

    —

    160

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    Ap1—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; silt loam; 5 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent medium faint spherical noncoherent cemented dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 2 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 0 percent by volume unspecified fragments; 0 original spring of soil Penetrometer; 0.5 original spring of soil Penetrometer; 1.5 original spring of soil Penetrometer; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N00128; moist when described; observed in trench
    Ap2—14 to 32 centimeters (5.5 to 12.6 inches); dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3) interior silt loam; 7 percent clay; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 15 percent medium faint spherical noncoherent cemented gray (10YR 5/1), moist, and dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 0 percent by volume unspecified fragments; 2.5 original spring of soil Penetrometer; 3 original spring of soil Penetrometer; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N00129; moist when described; observed in trench
    Cg1—32 to 50 centimeters (12.6 to 19.7 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior silt loam; 6 percent clay; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent fine faint spherical noncoherent cemented gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 20 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 0 percent by volume unspecified fragments; 3.5 original spring of soil Penetrometer; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N00130; moist when described; observed in trench
    Ab—50 to 58 centimeters (19.7 to 22.8 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) interior silt loam; 8 percent clay; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent medium faint spherical noncoherent cemented grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 0 percent by volume unspecified fragments; 2.25 original spring of soil Penetrometer; 3 original spring of soil Penetrometer; 2.5 original spring of soil Penetrometer; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N00131; moist when described; observed in trench
    Cg2—58 to 91 centimeters (22.8 to 35.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior silt; 12 percent clay; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 0 percent by volume unspecified fragments; 3.75 original spring of soil Penetrometer; 3.5 original spring of soil Penetrometer; 2.25 original spring of soil Penetrometer; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N00132; moist when described; observed in trench
    Cg3—91 to 165 centimeters (35.8 to 65.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) interior silt loam; 8 percent clay; massive; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented iron-manganese nodules in matrix and 1 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 4 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 0 percent by volume unspecified fragments; 2 original spring of soil Penetrometer; 1.75 original spring of soil Penetrometer; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 07N00133; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket