IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cabot
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009VT007006
  • User Pedon ID: S09VT007006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0728
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43301
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 44.4220123
  • Std. Longitude: -73.0720444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Chittenden County, Vermont; Town of Williston. Waldo Siple Farm off South Road.
  • 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, M. Thomas
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, semiactive, nonacid, mesic, shallow Aeric Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cabot
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, semiactive, nonacid, mesic, shallow Aeric Endoaquepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 49 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/26/2013
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Fairfield Pond Member Of Cu formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent nonflat 600- to 1000-millimeter 2.00 percent nonflat 75- to 250-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/14/2009 (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 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    49 -

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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

    0—8

    8—28

    49—

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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

    5

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    193.9

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) fine sandy loam; moderate coarse granular structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 fine roots; 3 percent by volume , 4 percent by weight nonflat indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots; 30 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, and 35 percent very coarse distinct gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist,; 12 percent by volume , 18 percent by weight nonflat indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—28 to 49 centimeters (11.0 to 19.3 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; structureless massive; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist,; 15 percent by volume , 23 percent by weight nonflat indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cd—49 to 70 centimeters (19.3 to 27.6 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine sandy loam; structureless massive; very firm; 7 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist,; 12 percent by volume , 18 percent by weight nonflat indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method.; moist when described; observed in pit, small