IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Canton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958CT003001
  • User Pedon ID: S1958CT003001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1958CT003001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5404
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42649
  • 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: 41.7188721
  • Std. Longitude: -72.4606247
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.7 mile northeast of Lookout Tower on John Tom Hill. East of Birch Mountain Road and near the Hartford Tolland county Line.
  • State: Connecticut
  • County: CT003—Hartford
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CT003—Hartford County, Connecticut

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Shearin
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Canton
  • PSC - 32 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/17/2015
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till derived from schist
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - 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

    BEPO

    HAMAM

    KALMI

    QUAL

    QUVE

    VACCI

    Betula populifolia

    Hamamelis

    Kalmia

    Quercus alba

    Quercus velutina

    Vaccinium

    gray birch

    witchhazel

    laurel

    white oak

    black oak

    blueberry

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

    fibric soil materials

    hemic soil materials

    sapric soil materials

    cambic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—3

    3—4

    4—7

    9—62

    62—95

    —3—

    —1—

    —3—

    —53—

    —33—
    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

    7

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Undecomposed litter.
    Oe—3 to 4 centimeters (1.2 to 1.6 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. partially decomposed litter.
    Oa1—4 to 7 centimeters (1.6 to 2.8 inches); highly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 40A40664. Sampled but not described.
    Oa2—7 to 9 centimeters (2.8 to 3.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) highly decomposed plant material; massive; fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A40665
    Bw1—9 to 17 centimeters (3.5 to 6.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) highly organic fine sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A40666
    Bw2—17 to 34 centimeters (6.7 to 13.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A40667
    Bw3—34 to 47 centimeters (13.4 to 18.5 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A40668
    BC—47 to 62 centimeters (18.5 to 24.4 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A40669
    2C—62 to 95 centimeters (24.4 to 37.4 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) and olive (5Y 4/3) gravelly stony fine sandy loam; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A40670