IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Paxton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978NH011001
  • User Pedon ID: S1978NH011001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1978NH011001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0095
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46279
  • 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: 42.7075778
  • Std. Longitude: -71.5765278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: BdB—Bernardston variant very fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: New Hampshire
  • County: NH011—Hillsborough
  • 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: NH601—Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, Eastern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42071-F5—Pepperell, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Eutrudepts
  • 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 - Paxton
  • PSC - 25 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/3/2014
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Paxton
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Fragiochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1978
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: gently sloping drumloidal hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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

    densic material

    noncoherent

    56 - 150

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    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

    0—28

    28—56

    56—

    56—150

    56—150

    56—150

    —28—

    —28—

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    —94—

    —94—

    —94—
    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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    94.4

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    45

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; gravelly fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-5-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 9 percent by volume flat 2-20-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P00498
    Bw1—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) gravelly sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 6 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 12 percent by volume flat 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P00499
    Bw2—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 3 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary.
    Cd—56 to 150 centimeters (22.0 to 59.1 inches); 80 percent olive (5Y 5/3) and 20 percent light gray (5Y 7/2) very gravelly coarse sandy loam; moderate fine platy structure; firm; 1 percent medium distinct red (7.5R 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 16 percent by volume nonflat 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 17 percent by volume flat 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2. Lab sample # 79P00500. Sampled from 84-99 cm. Lenses 1-3 mm thick.