IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Monadnock
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2013NH605014
  • User Pedon ID: 2013NH605014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - FS
  • Lab Pedon # - 2013NH605014
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79716
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 44.0401229
  • Std. Longitude: -71.7943426
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: TEUI plot 063, gps waypoint 016, SIE map unit 31
  • State: New Hampshire
  • County: NH009—Grafton
  • MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-STJ—Saint Johnsbury, Vermont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NH605—White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire and Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DeKett, Stuart, Philippe
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, isotic over mixed, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: ecological site data
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.0
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Monadnock
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/2/2015
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Monadnock
  • Classificaton Date - 8/29/2013
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: supraglacial meltout till derived from igneous and metamorphic rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain
  • Microfeature: mound
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainbase
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/17/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Microrelief Kind: microslope
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    spodic horizon

    7—59

    7—59

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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

    6

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    569

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    32

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark gray (5YR 3/1) moderately decomposed plant material; massive; friable; 7.0 very fine roots and 7.0 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Oa—3 to 7 centimeters (1.2 to 2.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) highly decomposed plant material; massive; friable; 7.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 2013NH0141; observed in pit, small
    Bhs—7 to 12 centimeters (2.8 to 4.7 inches); black (5YR 2.5/1) very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 2013NH0142; observed in pit, small
    E/Bhsb—12 to 23 centimeters (4.7 to 9.1 inches); very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bhsb1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); reddish black (2.5YR 2.5/1) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 3 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bhsb2—36 to 59 centimeters (14.2 to 23.2 inches); reddish black (2.5YR 2.5/1) very cobbly fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots; 15 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. smeary
    2C—59 to 100 centimeters (23.2 to 39.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) very cobbly loamy coarse sand; single grain; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 30 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 2013NH0143; observed in pit, small