IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chatfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955NH015003
  • User Pedon ID: S1955NH015003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1955NH015003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0466
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32994
  • 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: 43.0647240
  • Std. Longitude: -71.0500031
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Rockingham County, New Hampshire. Approximately two miles north-northeast of Epping, 600-800 feet to the north of Route 125 on the Burleigh property.
  • Map Unit: 140D—Chatfield-Hollis-Canton complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes, rocky
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New Hampshire
  • County: NH015—Rockingham
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NH015—Rockingham County, New Hampshire

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A.B. Prince, L.E. Garland, D. van der Voet, and W.H. Lyford.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chatfield
  • PSC - 25 to 105 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/3/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chatfield
  • Classificaton Date - 7/22/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till over schist
  • Landscape: glaciated upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: schist, unspecified at 105cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/22/1955 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    ACRU

    ACSA3

    BELE

    FAGR

    PIST

    TSCA

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharum

    Betula lenta

    Fagus grandifolia

    Pinus strobus

    Tsuga canadensis

    red maple

    sugar maple

    sweet birch

    American beech

    eastern white pine

    eastern hemlock

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    105 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—11

    11—79

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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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    70

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 40A03480. Not sampled.
    Oe—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 40A03479. Not sample. This horizon as well as the one below contains partially decomposed litter, fibrous and full of fine roots. The forest floor averaged three inches in thickness.
    A—8 to 11 centimeters (3.1 to 4.3 inches); highly organic fine sandy loam; 21.0 roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A03481. Black in the top grading to brown below with just a slight evidence of a pale brown horizon in the lower part. So thin it was difficult to sample and obtain the amount of sample needed. In one or two places there was evidence of an old bleicherde (albic) but this was just in spots.
    Bw1—11 to 28 centimeters (4.3 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 roots; 15 percent by volume 2-38-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A03482. Contains 10-20 percent coarse skeleton.
    Bw2—28 to 54 centimeters (11.0 to 21.3 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; friable; 0.5 roots; 15 percent by volume 2-38-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A03483. Much like the material in the horizon above.
    Bw3—54 to 79 centimeters (21.3 to 31.1 inches); gravelly fine sandy loam; friable; 15 percent by volume 2-38-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 40A03484. Essentially the same as the horizon above, but deeper.
    C—79 to 105 centimeters (31.1 to 41.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) gravelly sandy loam; massive; firm; 0.1 roots; 15 percent by volume angular 2-38-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume subangular 2-38-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 40A03485. Firm enough so that a pick was used to dislodge it but a shovel could have been used. Subangular particles were 2-3 inch glacial till pebbles.
    2R—105 to 130 centimeters (41.3 to 51.2 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 40A03486. Rusty colored, thin bedded schistose bedrock.