IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dutchess
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982VT003033
  • User Pedon ID: S1982VT003033
  • Vegetation Plot ID: VT003-1982-001-Dutchess-T
  • User Site Association ID: VT Bennington County, Vermont Typical Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0117
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 52359
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 42.7640266
  • Std. Longitude: -73.2063904
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Bennington County, VT; town of Pownal; 6970 ft east of US Rt 7 and 4165 ft south of Ladd Brook Road, on Mason Hill; 1 mile north of Massachusetts border
  • Map Unit: 47C—Dutchess channery loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes, very stony
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT003—Bennington
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT003—Bennington County, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Carl T. Britt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, subactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 33
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dutchess
  • PSC - 30 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/26/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dutchess
  • Classificaton Date - 10/18/1982
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Landscape: glaciated upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1982 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    ACSA3

    ACSA3

    ACSA3

    BEPA

    FAGUS

    PIST

    PIST

    POBA2

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharum

    Acer saccharum

    Acer saccharum

    Betula papyrifera

    Fagus

    Pinus strobus

    Pinus strobus

    Populus balsamifera

    red maple

    sugar maple

    sugar maple

    sugar maple

    paper birch

    beech

    eastern white pine

    eastern white pine

    balsam poplar

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

    ochric epipedon

    fibric soil materials

    cambic horizon

    0—18

    0—5

    18—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

    8

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    487.7

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    225

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Partially decomposed leaves, twigs, and roots. Not sampled
    A—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable; 5.5 roots; 15 percent by volume flat 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P00494. many roots
    Bw1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 roots; 24 percent by volume flat 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P00495. common roots
    Bw2—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) channery coarse sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 26 percent by volume flat 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P00496. few roots
    BC—43 to 71 centimeters (16.9 to 28.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent by volume flat 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P00497
    C1—71 to 112 centimeters (28.0 to 44.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) channery loam; weak coarse platy structure; firm; 17 percent by volume flat 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P00498
    C2—112 to 183 centimeters (44.1 to 72.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 17 percent by volume flat 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 83P00500, 83P00499. 83P0500 is red sample from 109 to 125 cm. Few 10YR 4/4 limestone ghosts