IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nunda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1963NY043001
  • User Pedon ID: S1963NY043001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1963NY043001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0263
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32791
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Herkimer County, New York. About 200 yards south of junction of Steuben Hill Road and Upson Road.
  • State: New York
  • County: NY043—Herkimer

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.G. Cady, D.F. Flora, D.P. Franzmeier, F.Z. Hutton, R.C. Marshall, E.J. Pedersen and M.G. Cline.
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nunda
  • PSC - 10 to 40 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/19/1963 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    FRAGA

    Fragaria

    strawberry

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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
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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dry; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to fine and medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A01933
    B1—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dry; silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard; 21.0 fine roots; 3.0 tubular pores; 25 percent pressure faces; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A01934. Peds not apparent in pit, no clay skins in peds or on peds; probably part of original Ap.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 195319; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 195319
    B21—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed and 10YR (10YR/), crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dry; silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard; 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; 25 percent pressure faces on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A01935. Peds barely distinguishable in pit; no clay skins in pores or on peds.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 183914; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 183914
    B22—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard; 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 tubular pores; 75 percent pressure faces on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A01936. Peds distinct in pit face; no clay skins on ped faces or in pores.
    IIA'21—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed loam, silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and platy structure; firm; 21.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; pressure faces; 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A01937. Clean sand grains on 10 percent of ped faces; no clay skins on peds or in pores.; continuous - phpvsfiid 183916; continuous - phpvsfiid 183916
    IIA'22—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) gravelly loam; weak thick platy parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 pores; distinct pressure faces and distinct coats in root channels and/or pores and 10 percent distinct clay films in root channels and/or pores; 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A01938. No cutans on peds; pores have distinct cutans; scattered clean sand grains on some plate faces.
    IIIB'2t—81 to 117 centimeters (31.9 to 46.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) gravelly silty clay loam; strong very coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 pores; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, coats on faces of peds and dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, coats on faces of peds and coats in root channels and/or pores; 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A01939
    IIIC—117 to 127 centimeters (46.1 to 50.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed gravelly silty clay loam; weak and moderate coarse platy, and angular blocky structure; firm; 0.0 roots; coats on faces of peds and clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) masses of dark accumulation; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A01940. Parts of faces have similar pits and microridges, but material appears under low power to be silt; soft fragments are of shale.; patchy - phpvsfiid 195346; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 195347; patchy - phpvsfiid 195346; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 195347