IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sunapee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2014NH605044
  • User Pedon ID: 2014NH605044
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - FS
  • Lab Pedon # - 2014NH605044
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79834
  • 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: 44.0605528
  • Std. Longitude: -71.7854556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: WAMMO_2014_109; TEUI plot 109; gps waypoint 174
  • 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
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, isotic over mixed, frigid Typic Haplohumods
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: ecological site data
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.1B
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sunapee
  • PSC - 42 to 117 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/15/2015
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sunapee
  • Classificaton Date - 7/30/2014
  • Classifier - DeKett
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/30/2014 (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 Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Oa1

    Oa2

    E

    Bhs1

    Bhs2

    BC

    C

    0

    5

    17

    21

    28

    59

    78

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    78

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Oa1

    Oa2

    E

    Bhs1

    Bhs2

    BC

    C

    0

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    17

    21

    28

    59

    78

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Oa1

    Oa2

    E

    Bhs1

    Bhs2

    BC

    C

    0

    5

    17

    21

    28

    59

    78

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    0—21

    17—21

    21—59

    —21—

    —4—

    —38—
    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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    Oa1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (5YR 2.5/1) highly decomposed plant material; massive; friable; 7.0 very fine roots and 7.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 2014NH0441; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oa2—5 to 17 centimeters (2.0 to 6.7 inches); black (10YR 2/1) highly decomposed plant material; massive; friable; 7.0 very fine roots and 3.0 very coarse roots and 7.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots and 7.0 coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—17 to 21 centimeters (6.7 to 8.3 inches); gray (7.5YR 5/1) loamy fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 very fine roots and 7.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2 percent by volume indurated 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bhs1—21 to 28 centimeters (8.3 to 11.0 inches); reddish black (10R 2.5/1) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately smeary; 7.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume indurated 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume indurated 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 # 2014NH0442; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bhs2—28 to 59 centimeters (11.0 to 23.2 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2 percent by volume indurated 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—59 to 78 centimeters (23.2 to 30.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent coarse distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions and 10 percent coarse distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) iron-manganese masses; 5 percent by volume indurated 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—78 to 105 centimeters (30.7 to 41.3 inches); cobbly sand; weak thin platy structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots; 30 percent medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent by volume indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume indurated 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 2014NH0443; moist when described; observed in pit, small. looks stratified