IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Woodbridge
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2020CT013014
  • User Pedon ID: S2020CT013014
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2020CT013014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 21N0052
  • User Project ID: 2021-12TOL003_done
  • Project Name: DSP CT 2021 Science of Soil Health UCONN
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 41.8216167
  • Std. Longitude: -72.2533333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 46B—Woodbridge fine sandy loam, 0 to 8 percent slopes, very stony
  • State: Connecticut
  • County: CT013—Tolland
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CT600—State of Connecticut

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MV, GV
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Woodbridge
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/19/2020
  • Classifier - G. Vega
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lodgment till
  • Landscape: glaciated upland
  • Landform: drumlin
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • RaCA Information:
  • DSP Plot ID - PaU2-2

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/21/2020 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: MV, GV
  • 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 - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 29
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACPL

    ACPL

    ACRU

    FRAM2

    BETH

    BETH

    CAREX

    EUAL13

    Acer platanoides

    Acer platanoides

    Acer rubrum

    Fraxinus americana

    Berberis thunbergii

    Berberis thunbergii

    Carex

    Euonymus alatus

    Norway maple

    Norway maple

    red maple

    white ash

    Japanese barberry

    Japanese barberry

    sedge

    burningbush

    tree

    tree

    tree

    tree

    shrub/vine

    —

    —

    —

    5

    20

    5

    40

    10

    1

    1

    1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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

    densic material

    noncoherent

    75 - 112

    - 37 -

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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    redox concentrations

    aquic conditions

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    densic contact

    densic materials

    0—23

    23—75

    46—112

    46—112

    60—75

    75—

    75—112

    —23—

    —52—

    —66—

    —66—

    —15—

    —-

    —37—
    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

    7

    —

    —

    205

    —

    265

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; fine sandy loam; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 21N00215, 21N00216, 21N00217; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bw1—23 to 37 centimeters (9.1 to 14.6 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face very bouldery fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-400-600 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; 5 percent krotovinas (volume percent); clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 21N00218; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bw2—37 to 46 centimeters (14.6 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face very bouldery sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-400-600 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; 5 percent krotovinas (volume percent); clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 21N00219; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bw3—46 to 60 centimeters (18.1 to 23.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face very bouldery sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-400-600 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 21N00220; moist when described; observed in trench
    BC—60 to 75 centimeters (23.6 to 29.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 15 percent prominent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions; 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    Cd1—75 to 86 centimeters (29.5 to 33.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face gravelly sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 15 percent distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    Cd2—86 to 112 centimeters (33.9 to 44.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face gravelly sandy loam; structureless massive; very firm; 10 percent distinct dusky red (7.5R 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method.; moist when described; observed in trench