IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Taconic
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978VT025009
  • User Pedon ID: S1978VT025009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1978VT025009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0348
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45902
  • 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: 43.1908340
  • Std. Longitude: -72.4583359
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Town of Rockingham, 150 yards east of rest area on I91 North
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT025—Windham
  • MLRA: 145—Connecticut Valley
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT025—Windham County, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Yost and W. Sheehan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Lithic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Taconic
  • PSC - 25 to 40 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lyman
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, frigid Lithic Haplorthod
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/18/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glacial till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/18/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and 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

    ACRU

    PIST

    QUAL

    QURU

    Acer rubrum

    Pinus strobus

    Quercus alba

    Quercus rubra

    red maple

    eastern white pine

    white oak

    northern red oak

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

    fibric soil materials

    sapric soil materials

    lithic contact

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—1

    1—3

    43—

    43—

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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

    20

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    238

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    Oa—1 to 3 centimeters (0.4 to 1.2 inches); highly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 21.0 roots; 5 percent by volume unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P01825, 78P01828
    Bhs—8 to 26 centimeters (3.1 to 10.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately smeary; 21.0 roots; 10 percent by volume unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P01826, 78P01829
    Bs—26 to 43 centimeters (10.2 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) highly organic silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately smeary; 21.0 roots; 10 percent by volume unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P01827, 78P01830
    R—43 centimeters (16.9 inches); bedrock; fragments. Interbedded phyllite and schist