IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Peru
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000VT015002
  • User Pedon ID: S2000VT015002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000VT015002
  • User Site Association ID: VT Long Term Monitoring Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P1235
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 12731
  • 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: 44.4952260
  • Std. Longitude: -72.7971070
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Ranch Brook, Dewey Trail.
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT015—Lamoille
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT015—Lamoille County, Vermont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44072-D7—Bolton Mountain, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Villars, Lynn, Scheyer, Ross, Negra, Keane
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Aquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Peru
  • PSC - 30 to 105 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/29/2015
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Peru
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2000
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/31/2000 (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

    FAGR

    Fagus grandifolia

    American beech

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

    densic material

    noncoherent

    110 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    0—10

    10—110

    110—

    —10—

    —100—

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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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    518

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    15

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; very friable; 2.0 very fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P07184. partially decomposed leaves and twigs.
    A—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 1.0 very coarse roots and 2.0 medium and coarse roots; 2 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume , 5 percent by weight 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P07185
    Bw1—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine and fine roots and 2.0 medium and coarse roots; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method and 5 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P07186
    Bw2—25 to 50 centimeters (9.8 to 19.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P07187
    Bw3—50 to 76 centimeters (19.7 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) very gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine and fine roots and 1.0 medium roots; 30 percent distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2); 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume , schist, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P07188
    BC—76 to 110 centimeters (29.9 to 43.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) very gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots; 10 percent by volume 600-750-1000 millimeter unspecified fragments and 53 percent by volume , 67 percent by weight 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P07189
    C—110 to 124 centimeters (43.3 to 48.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 37 percent by volume 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 00P07190