IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Paxton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1996NH013001
  • User Pedon ID: S1996NH013001
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 88
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0232
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68707
  • 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: 43.1755260
  • Std. Longitude: -71.6076430
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Concord, NH; top of drumlin, in in grass - hay
  • Map Unit: 66B—Paxton fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: New Hampshire
  • County: NH013—Merrimack
  • 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: NH609—Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43071-B5—Concord, New Hampshire

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Peter Whitcomb
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Paxton
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/4/2014
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Paxton
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Oxyaquic Dystrochrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/1996
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till
  • Landscape: drumlin field
  • Landform: drumlin
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/27/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    56 - 60

    - 4 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    densic contact

    densic materials

    0—23

    23—56

    56—60

    56—

    56—60

    —23—

    —33—

    —4—

    —-

    —4—
    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

    3

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    —

    147.5

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    67

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # 97P01573. Sampled per O. C. 2 bags.
    Ap2—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 24 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 97P01574. Sampled per O. C. 4 bags.
    Bw—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments.
    BC—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments.
    Cd—56 to 60 centimeters (22.0 to 23.6 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine platy structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 2 percent masses of oxidized iron at top of horizon; fragments.