IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Podunk
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010VT019005
  • User Pedon ID: S10VT019005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2010VT019005
  • User Site Association ID: VT Lake Champlain Phosphorus Study
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N6701
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70738
  • 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: 45.0058778
  • Std. Longitude: -72.3936917
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: very close to Canadian border - north of North Troy; pit 5 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-H4—North Troy, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Alves
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Pedon #: 5
  • 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 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    PHAR3

    Phalaris arundinacea

    reed canarygrass

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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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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very fine sandy loam; weak coarse granular structure; friable; many very fine roots and common medium roots and many fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C1—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) very fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common very fine roots and few medium roots and common fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C2—51 to 80 centimeters (20.1 to 31.5 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common very fine roots and common fine roots; 10 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 4/6); fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C3—80 to 103 centimeters (31.5 to 40.6 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) very fine sandy loam, sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common very fine roots and few medium roots and common fine roots; 30 percent very coarse dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6); fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C4—103 to 143 centimeters (40.6 to 56.3 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) loamy sand; massive; friable; common very fine roots and few medium roots; 75 percent coarse yellowish red (5YR 4/6); fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C5—143 to 180 centimeters (56.3 to 70.9 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) stratified stratified loamy sand to sand; massive; friable; few very fine roots; 30 percent coarse strong brown (7.5YR 4/6); fragments.; observed in pit, small