IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lyman
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984VT023002
  • User Pedon ID: 84VT023002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0786
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55029
  • 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: 44.2713890
  • Std. Longitude: -72.7513885
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 375 feet W of Rte. 100B, 5050 feet NW of Moretown Common 5 corners.
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT023—Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Gourley and B. Wheeler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, isotic, frigid Lithic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lyman
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, isotic, frigid Lithic Haplorthods
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 36 to 54 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/8/2014
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments: 70.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    54 -

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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

    lithic contact

    0—16

    11—16

    16—31

    54—

    —16—

    —5—

    —15—

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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

    26

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    236

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    225

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    Oi—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 84P4441. Loose forest litter.
    Oa—8 to 11 centimeters (3.1 to 4.3 inches); highly decomposed plant material; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 84P4442. Decomposed litter.
    E—11 to 16 centimeters (4.3 to 6.3 inches); dark gray (5YR 4/1) interior sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 5.5 roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P4443. 5% gravel.; many roots
    Bhs—16 to 21 centimeters (6.3 to 8.3 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; weakly smeary; 2.5 roots; 15 percent by volume , 23 percent by weight 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P4444. 5% gravel.; common roots
    Bs—21 to 31 centimeters (8.3 to 12.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; weakly smeary; 2.5 roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P4445. 5% gravel.; common roots
    BC—31 to 54 centimeters (12.2 to 21.3 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; weakly smeary; 0.5 roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P4446. 5% gravel.; few roots
    R—54 centimeters (21.3 inches); bedrock; fragments. Schist bedrock; discontinuous horizon (10YR 3/4) on top of bedrock, below Bw.