IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pittstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978NH019010
  • User Pedon ID: 78NH019010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1978NH019010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0572
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46126
  • 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: 43.3133316
  • Std. Longitude: -72.3483353
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: town of Unity, 1500 feet north of woods road, 1.5 miles west of end of dirt road which intersects the highway from the west, 2 miles north of West Unity
  • State: New Hampshire
  • County: NH019—Sullivan
  • MLRA: 145—Connecticut Valley
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NH019—Sullivan County, New Hampshire

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Shook and S. Gourley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Aquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pittstown
  • PSC - 25 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pittstown
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Fragiochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/13/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: DVA-1M-92
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    FAGUS

    FRAM2

    Fagus

    Fraxinus americana

    beech

    white ash

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    densic materials

    0—23

    23—56

    56—

    56—155

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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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    354

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    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) gravelly silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P03382
    Ap2—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) gravelly silt loam; 1 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) fine faint and 1 percent brown (10YR 4/3) fine faint mottles; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P03383
    Bw1—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) gravelly silt loam; 1 percent brown (10YR 4/3) fine faint and 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P03384
    Bw2—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) very gravelly silt loam; 1 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) fine distinct and 21 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine and medium distinct and 21 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine and medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P03385
    Cdg1—56 to 97 centimeters (22.0 to 38.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) gravelly fine sandy loam; 21 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) coarse prominent and 21 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) coarse prominent and 21 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) coarse prominent and 21 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) coarse prominent and 21 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) coarse prominent and 21 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) coarse prominent mottles; massive; very firm; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P03386
    Cdg2—97 to 140 centimeters (38.2 to 55.1 inches); extremely gravelly fine sandy loam; fragments. Lab sample # 78P03387
    Cd—140 to 155 centimeters (55.1 to 61.0 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) gravelly fine sandy loam; 1 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) fine and medium prominent and 1 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) fine and medium prominent and 1 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine and medium prominent and 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine and medium prominent mottles; massive; firm; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified. Lab sample # 78P03388