IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pittstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959NH019001
  • User Pedon ID: S1959NH019001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0604
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33682
  • 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: 43.1834101
  • Std. Longitude: -72.3645322
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1 1/2 miles Northeast of village of Langdon on the Arthur Gude Farm, 50 yards west of gravel road. Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
  • Map Unit: BdB—Bernardston silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: New Hampshire
  • County: NH019—Sullivan
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NH019—Sullivan County, New Hampshire
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43072-B3—Alstead, New Hampshire

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Pedersen, F. Vieira, B. Brasher, E. Hutchinson, T. Kelsey, A.D. Hamilton.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pittstown
  • PSC - 25 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/2/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Woodbridge
  • Classificaton Date - 9/18/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/18/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    58 - 147

    - 89 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    densic materials

    redox concentrations

    aquic conditions

    endosaturation

    0—23

    23—58

    58—

    58—147

    58—147

    58—147

    58—147

    —23—

    —35—

    —-

    —89—

    —89—

    —89—

    —89—
    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

    6

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    —

    276.7

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    354

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 21.0 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A04448
    Bw1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 roots; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A04449
    Bw2—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and olive gray (5Y 5/2) loam; weak medium platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 roots; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A04450
    Bw3—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) loam; moderate medium platy parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A04451
    Cdg—58 to 91 centimeters (22.8 to 35.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) silt loam; 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate coarse platy structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; olive gray (5Y 5/2); 6 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter. Lab sample # 40A04452
    Cd1—91 to 130 centimeters (35.8 to 51.2 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) loam; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) fine distinct and 3 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) medium distinct and 3 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium platy structure; firm; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter. Lab sample # 40A04453
    Cd2—130 to 147 centimeters (51.2 to 57.9 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) loam; 3 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) medium distinct and 3 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium platy structure; firm; greenish gray (5GY 5/1) and black (5Y 2/1); 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter. Lab sample # 40A04454