IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vergennes
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007VT007004
  • User Pedon ID: S07VT007004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007VT007004
  • User Site Association ID: VT Lake Champlain Phosphorus Study
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0224
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19732
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 44.2851486
  • Std. Longitude: -73.1778488
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Charlotte; John Barlow property, off of Spear Street in a wooded area on a slope above floodplain
  • Map Unit: VeE—Vergennes clay, 25 to 60 percent slopes
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT007—Chittenden
  • MLRA: 142—St. Lawrence-Champlain Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT007—Chittenden County, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Alves, E. Young
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, illitic, mesic Glossaquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vergennes
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, illitic, mesic Glossaquic Hapludalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 8/10/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: riser
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: very rare flooding
  • Bedrock: dolomite (dolostone)
  • Geology: Winooski Dolomite (cw) formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/10/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • 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
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CACO15

    FRAM2

    LONIC

    ONSE

    OXALI

    PIST

    TSCA

    ULAM

    Carya cordiformis

    Fraxinus americana

    Lonicera

    Onoclea sensibilis

    Oxalis

    Pinus strobus

    Tsuga canadensis

    Ulmus americana

    bitternut hickory

    white ash

    honeysuckle

    sensitive fern

    woodsorrel

    eastern white pine

    eastern hemlock

    American elm

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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

    15

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    85

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    45

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay; strong very coarse granular structure; firm; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—15 to 51 centimeters (5.9 to 20.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—51 to 85 centimeters (20.1 to 33.5 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) clay; moderate medium platy structure; very firm; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C1—85 to 127 centimeters (33.5 to 50.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) clay; moderate medium platy structure; very firm; 1 percent fine faint 7.5YR (7.5YR) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C2—127 centimeters (50.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay; moderate medium platy structure; firm; 1 percent fine faint 7.5YR (7.5YR) masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume nonflat 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments.; observed in auger, bucket