IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Skerry
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2013NH605025
  • User Pedon ID: 2013NH605025
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - FS
  • Lab Pedon # - 2013NH605025
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79727
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 44.0944167
  • Std. Longitude: -71.8402389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: TEUI plot 018, gps waypoint 027, SIE map unit 13
  • 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
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: ecological site data
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.0
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Skerry
  • Classificaton Date - 8/29/2013
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: basal till
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainbase
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/27/2013 (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 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
    • 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

    20

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    353

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    45

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) moderately decomposed plant material; massive; friable; 7.0 very fine roots and 7.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—5 to 28 centimeters (2.0 to 11.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) very fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 7.0 very fine roots and 7.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 2013NH0251; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bhs—28 to 54 centimeters (11.0 to 21.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots; 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 2013NH0252; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—54 to 68 centimeters (21.3 to 26.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) very cobbly fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent coarse faint dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) iron-manganese masses and 30 percent medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions; 15 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 25 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary.; wet when described; observed in pit, small
    Cd—68 centimeters (26.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) very gravelly loamy coarse sand; massive; firm; 30 percent coarse prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 35 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 2013NH0253; moist when described; observed in pit, small