IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bernardston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981VT021002
  • User Pedon ID: S1981VT021002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0746
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49590
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 43.5866661
  • Std. Longitude: -73.0038910
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Rutland County, VT: Rutland Photo number 27-116 Quanterline Road.
  • Map Unit: 30B—Paxton fine sandy loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT021—Rutland
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-PAS—Paul Smiths, New York
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT021—Rutland County, Vermont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43073-E1—West Rutland, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Pratt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic, shallow Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bernardston
  • PSC - 25 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/2/2014
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Colrain Variant
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lodgment till derived from metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    46 - 255

    - 209 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    lithologic discontinuity

    densic materials

    densic contact

    0—18

    5—46

    46—135

    46—255

    46—255

    46—

    —18—

    —41—

    —89—

    —209—

    —209—

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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

    8

    —

    —

    284

    —

    0

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 roots; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P4448. Coarse fragments 2-19 mm, 3% 20-75 mm, 1% 75-255 mm, none greater than 255 mm.; many roots
    Bw1—5 to 30 centimeters (2.0 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior cobbly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2.5 roots; 7 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 11 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P4449. Coarse fragments 2-19 mm, none 20-75 mm, 11% 75-255 mm, none grater than 255 mm.; common roots
    Bw2—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very stony fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 18 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 28 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P4450. Coarse fragment 2-19 mm, 5% 20-75 mm, 18% 75-255 mm, 28 % greater than 255 mm.; few roots
    2Cd1—46 to 135 centimeters (18.1 to 53.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior extremely cobbly fine sandy loam; massive; firm; 0.5 roots in cracks; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 22 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 58 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P4451. Structure is friable in hand. Coarse fragments 2-19 mm, 1% 20-75 mm, 58% 75-255 mm, 22% greater than 255 mm.; few roots in cracks
    2Cd2—135 to 255 centimeters (53.1 to 100.4 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior stony fine sandy loam; strong coarse platy structure; firm; 6 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 16 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 81P4452. Strongly acid increasing to slightly acid with depth. Coarse fragments 2-19 mm, 1% 20-75 mm, none 75-255 mm, 16% greater than 255 mm.