IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cabot
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959VT017003
  • User Pedon ID: 59VT017003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959VT017003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5418
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42663
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Randolph town, 1 mile east of Randolph Center, precisely located on air photo C1W 4-110.
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT017—Orange
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT017—Orange County, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. Howard, Jr.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, active, nonacid, frigid, shallow Typic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cabot
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, active, nonacid, frigid, shallow Typic Endoaquolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 30 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/25/2013
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland till plain
  • Landform: broad plateau
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/22/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: C1W 4-110
  • 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

    CAREX

    PHLEU

    Carex

    Phleum

    sedge

    timothy

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

    densic material

    noncoherent

    30 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    0—20

    20—30

    30—

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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

    7

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    353.6

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; loam; strong fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A40749. No coarse fragments discarded.
    Bg—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1), gray (5Y 5/1), dry; loam; 3 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) medium faint and 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium faint mottles; weak medium platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A40750
    Cdg1—30 to 61 centimeters (11.8 to 24.0 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1), gray (5Y 5/1), dry; loam; 3 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) fine and medium faint and 3 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine and medium faint mottles; weak thick platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 12 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A40751. No coarse fragments discarded
    Cdg2—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1), gray (5Y 5/1), dry; gravelly loam; 1 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) fine faint and 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 17 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A40752. Boundary arbitrary and not readable.
    Cdg3—79 to 107 centimeters (31.1 to 42.1 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1), gray (5Y 5/1), dry; gravelly silt loam; 1 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) fine faint and 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; massive; friable; 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A40753. No coarse fragments discarded. This horizon is thought to be partially weathered till.