IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Westbrook
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008CT011002
  • User Pedon ID: S2008CT011002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0702
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20004
  • 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: 41.3382492
  • Std. Longitude: -71.8756104
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: New London County, Connecticut; town of Stonington, 100 north of Barn island Boat launch and 200 feet east of Palmer Neck Road; on the Mystic USGS topographic quadrangle, latitude 41 degrees 20 minutes 17.7 seconds N., longitude 71 dgrees 52 minutes 32.2 seconds W., NAD 83.
  • 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: CT011—New London County, Connecticut

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Parizek, D. Surabian, L. Krall
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, euic, mesic Terric Sulfihemists
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Westbrook
  • PSC - 66 to 130 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - peraquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Westbrook
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, euic, mesic Terric Sulfihemists
  • Classificaton Date - 8/25/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: herbaceous organic material over sandy and loamy marine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal lowland
  • Landform: tidal marsh
  • Drainage Pattern: parallel
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: very frequent flooding for very brief periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/25/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: flooded
  • Surface Water Depth: 1
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - overcast
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    sulfidic materials

    aquic conditions

    fibric soil materials

    endosaturation

    histic epipedon

    hemic soil materials

    —

    0—170

    0—24

    0—170

    0—30

    24—66

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

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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

    —

    —

    0

    —

    107

    1250

    —

    160

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Oi—0 to 24 centimeters (0.0 to 9.4 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) reduced peat; slightly fluid; very fine roots throughout and medium roots throughout and fine roots throughout; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 08N04371; wet, satiated when described; observed in push tube
    Oe—24 to 66 centimeters (9.4 to 26.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) reduced mucky peat; moderately fluid; very fine roots throughout and medium roots throughout and fine roots throughout; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 08N04372; wet, satiated when described; observed in push tube
    A—66 to 90 centimeters (26.0 to 35.4 inches); black (10YR 2/1) reduced fine sandy loam; very fluid; very fine roots throughout; fragments; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 08N04373; wet, satiated when described; observed in push tube
    Cg—90 to 160 centimeters (35.4 to 63.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior fine sandy loam; massive; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; 2 percent fine prominent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 2 percent medium distinct gray (N 6/0), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 08N04374; wet, satiated when described; observed in auger, bucket
    C—160 to 170 centimeters (63.0 to 66.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior gravelly coarse sand; single grain; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; fragments. Lab sample # 08N04375; wet, satiated when described; observed in auger, bucket