IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Scantic
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S09VT007004
  • User Pedon ID: S09VT007004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S09VT007004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0726
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43299
  • 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: 44.4444656
  • Std. Longitude: -73.0970993
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Chittenden County, Vermont; Town of Williston. AOT property near "Jersey wall" off Rt 2.
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT007—Chittenden
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT007—Chittenden County, Vermont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44073-D1—Essex Junction, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Alves, R. Bourgault, A. Garcia, E. Garcia
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, nonacid, frigid Typic Epiaquepts
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Scantic
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, illitic, nonacid, frigid Typic Epiaquepts
  • Classificaton Date - 7/2/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: alluvial plain, meander belt
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Rugg Brook Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/2/2009 (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

    ACNE2

    SOLID

    URTIC

    Acer negundo

    Solidago

    Urtica

    boxelder

    goldenrod

    nettle

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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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    114.9

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    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate coarse granular structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 4.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—13 to 47 centimeters (5.1 to 18.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate coarse granular structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 4.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—47 to 64 centimeters (18.5 to 25.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate coarse granular structure; friable; 4.0 very fine roots and 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 2 percent medium faint dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist,; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cg1—64 to 80 centimeters (25.2 to 31.5 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) fine sandy loam; structureless massive; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 18 percent coarse prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist,; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cg2—80 to 130 centimeters (31.5 to 51.2 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) fine sandy loam; structureless massive; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 1 percent medium prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist,; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small