IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Limerick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S09VT011003
  • User Pedon ID: S09VT011003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S09VT011003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0736
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43309
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 44.9072990
  • Std. Longitude: -72.6635666
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Franklin County, Vermont; Town of Montgomery. Archenbault property, just off Longley Bridge Road.
  • Map Unit: Le—Limerick silt loam
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT011—Franklin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT011—Franklin County, Vermont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44072-H6—Richford, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Alves
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquepts
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Limerick
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquepts
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/2009
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: alluvial plain, meander belt
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Underhill Fm, Jay Peak Member formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/2009 (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 - hayland
  • 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

    RANUN

    Ranunculus

    buttercup

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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

    2

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    140

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    Ap—0 to 40 centimeters (0.0 to 15.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak coarse granular structure; friable; 4.0 very fine roots and 4.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—40 to 75 centimeters (15.7 to 29.5 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 3 percent medium faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist,; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cg1—75 to 107 centimeters (29.5 to 42.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist,; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cg2—107 to 130 centimeters (42.1 to 51.2 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) fine sandy loam, silt loam; massive; friable; 20 percent medium prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist,; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small