IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Buxton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008VT011008
  • User Pedon ID: S08VT011008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2008VT011008
  • User Site Association ID: VT Lake Champlain Phosphorus Study
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0301
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23940
  • 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: 44.9676170
  • Std. Longitude: -73.0136490
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Highgate, Franklin County, VT; Guy Choinere home farm, off Gore Rd; next to Rock River in overgrown pasture on floodplain
  • Map Unit: BxD—Buxton silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT011—Franklin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT011—Franklin County, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Alves, M. Stuart, T. Trevail
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Buxton
  • Classificaton Date - 8/21/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Morses Line Formation (oml) formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/21/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    ALNUS

    ONSE

    SOLID

    Alnus

    Onoclea sensibilis

    Solidago

    alder

    sensitive fern

    goldenrod

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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

    1

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    69.2

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    70

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; 4.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—18 to 53 centimeters (7.1 to 20.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) very fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 15 percent medium faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, and 25 percent coarse distinct gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist,; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BCg—53 to 77 centimeters (20.9 to 30.3 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots; 27 percent medium prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist,; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cg—77 to 100 centimeters (30.3 to 39.4 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) stratified stratified sandy loam; massive; friable; 1.0 very fine roots top of horizon; 5 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist,; fragments.; wet, satiated when described; observed in auger, bucket