IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Middlebury
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010VT007005
  • User Pedon ID: S2010VT007005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2010VT007005
  • User Site Association ID: VT Lake Champlain Phosphorus Study
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N6710
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72004
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 44.5097351
  • Std. Longitude: -73.0581589
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Alder Brook, Sand Hill Park near Rt 15 behind pool
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT007—Chittenden
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT007—Chittenden County, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Alves, E. Ishee, K. Garvey, A. Nord
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Oxyaquic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Middlebury
  • Classificaton Date - 10/8/2015
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hartland
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: meander belt on alluvial plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    DRYOP

    PIST

    TSCA

    Dryopteris

    Pinus strobus

    Tsuga canadensis

    woodfern

    eastern white pine

    eastern hemlock

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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

    12

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    180

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    A—0 to 34 centimeters (0.0 to 13.4 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) silty clay loam; moderate very coarse granular structure; friable; 4.0 very coarse roots and 1.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N03914; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—34 to 52 centimeters (13.4 to 20.5 inches); loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very coarse roots and 1.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 2 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 2 percent very coarse strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N03915; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ab—52 to 70 centimeters (20.5 to 27.6 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) stratified stratified loam; massive; firm; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; masses of oxidized iron around rock fragments; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N03916; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cg—70 to 100 centimeters (27.6 to 39.4 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) extremely gravelly silt loam; massive; extremely firm; 1.0 fine roots; 15 percent by volume 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 5-13-20 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 11N03917; moist when described; observed in pit, small