IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pittstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958NH019001
  • User Pedon ID: S1958NH019001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1958NH019001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0483
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33011
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 43.3764623
  • Std. Longitude: -72.3889786
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Claremont, N.H., Peterson Farm, Cropland, 300 yards. south of intersection 631 (Claremont Quadrangle) and 200 yards. west of road. Sullivan County, New Hampshire. Claremont Quad
  • State: New Hampshire
  • County: NH019—Sullivan
  • MLRA: 145—Connecticut Valley
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NH019—Sullivan County, New Hampshire
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43072-D4—Windsor, New Hampshire

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Pedersen, G. Phibbs, J. Kubota, D. van der Voet, A.D. Hamilton, E. Hutchinson, S. Pilgrim.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pittstown
  • PSC - 25 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/12/2014
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Stowe
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/1960
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till derived from schist
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/20/1960 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - 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

    AGGI2

    TRHY

    TRPR2

    Agrostis gigantea

    Trifolium hybridum

    Trifolium pratense

    redtop

    alsike clover

    red clover

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

    densic material

    noncoherent

    53 - 117

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    redox concentrations

    densic contact

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    aquic conditions

    densic materials

    0—20

    20—46

    28—53

    53—

    53—117

    53—117

    53—117

    —20—

    —26—

    —25—

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    —64—

    —64—

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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

    11

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    204

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    56

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 roots; 3 percent by volume 2-5-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03606
    Bw1—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 roots; 3 percent by volume 2-5-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03607
    Bw2—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 roots; 1 percent fine faint olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 8 percent by volume 2-5-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03608
    Bg—46 to 53 centimeters (18.1 to 20.9 inches); fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; very friable; 0.5 roots; 1 percent fine faint olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 6 percent by volume 2-5-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03609
    Cdg1—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 roots; 3 percent fine faint dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, iron depletions; 6 percent by volume 2-5-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03610. indications of polygon.
    Cdg2—71 to 94 centimeters (28.0 to 37.0 inches); fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; clay films; 21 percent medium distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, iron depletions and 21 percent medium distinct olive gray (5Y 4/2), moist, iron depletions; 9 percent by volume 2-5-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03611
    Cdg3—94 to 117 centimeters (37.0 to 46.1 inches); fine sandy loam; massive parts to weak medium subangular blocky; firm; 21 percent medium distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, iron depletions and 21 percent medium distinct olive gray (5Y 4/2), moist, iron depletions; 3 percent by volume 2-5-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter. Lab sample # 40A03612