IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vershire
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985VT027015
  • User Pedon ID: S1985VT027015
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1985VT027015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0877
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57143
  • 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: 43.7038879
  • Std. Longitude: -72.6536102
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Windsor County, Vermont, Town of Barnard.
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT027—Windsor
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT027—Windsor County, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Long
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vershire
  • PSC - 30 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/2/2014
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tunbridge
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Typic Haplorthod
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/6/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glacial till
  • Landform: sideslope of hill
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/6/1985 (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

    ABBA

    ACSA3

    BETUL

    Abies balsamea

    Acer saccharum

    Betula

    balsam fir

    sugar maple

    birch

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    58 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—5

    13—35

    58—

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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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    533

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    135

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; very friable; 21.0 roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bw1—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; weakly smeary; 21.0 roots; 13 percent by volume , 20 percent by weight 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.
    Bw2—13 to 35 centimeters (5.1 to 13.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; weakly smeary; 21.0 roots; 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04694
    Bw3—35 to 58 centimeters (13.8 to 22.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary.
    R—58 centimeters (22.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.