IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Podunk
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010VT019004
  • User Pedon ID: S10VT019004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2010VT019004
  • User Site Association ID: VT Lake Champlain Phosphorus Study
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N6700
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70651
  • 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: 44.8304194
  • Std. Longitude: -72.4350667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: approx. 2.5 miles north of Lowell off Rt 100 - Raboin Farm; pit 4 CC
  • Map Unit: 76A—Podunk fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT019—Orleans
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT019—Orleans County, Vermont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44072-G4—Lowell, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Alves
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Podunk
  • Classificaton Date - 3/25/2013
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: alluvial plain, meander belt
  • Landform: meander scar
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/20/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CIAR4

    DACTY

    PLANT

    TRIFO

    Cirsium arvense

    Dactylis

    Plantago

    Trifolium

    Canada thistle

    orchardgrass

    plantain

    clover

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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

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    243

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    Ap—0 to 22 centimeters (0.0 to 8.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) stratified stratified loamy sand; weak medium granular structure; friable; common very fine roots and common fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C1—22 to 68 centimeters (8.7 to 26.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common very fine roots; 7 percent fine yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C2—68 to 92 centimeters (26.8 to 36.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) stratified stratified silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C3—92 to 123 centimeters (36.2 to 48.4 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silt loam; massive; friable; few very fine roots; 20 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C4—123 to 150 centimeters (48.4 to 59.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) stratified stratified silt loam to loamy sand; massive; friable; 3 percent coarse gray (5Y 6/1) iron depletions and 18 percent coarse strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments.; observed in pit, small