IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Woodbridge
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2020CT013011
  • User Pedon ID: S2020CT013011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2020CT013011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 21N0049
  • User Project ID: 2021-12TOL003_done
  • Project Name: DSP CT 2021 Science of Soil Health UCONN
  • Print Date: 4/21/2026

    • 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: 41.8206833
  • Std. Longitude: -72.2513500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 45B—Woodbridge fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Connecticut
  • County: CT013—Tolland
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CT600—State of Connecticut

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MV, GV
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Woodbridge
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Dystrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 98 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/18/2020
  • Classifier - G. Vega
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lodgment till
  • Landscape: glaciated upland
  • Landform: drumlin
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • RaCA Information:
  • DSP Plot ID - PaM2-1

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/21/2020 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: MV, GV
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 32
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACPL

    ACRU

    FRAM2

    SAAL5

    TSCA

    LIBE3

    ROMU

    VACO

    VILA

    VISI

    AGAL5

    ALPE4

    BETH

    CAGR2

    CAREX

    CEOR7

    EUDI16

    EUGR5

    GEMA

    ONSE

    PAQU2

    PIPU2

    SOLID

    TORA2

    VIRE7

    Acer platanoides

    Acer rubrum

    Fraxinus americana

    Sassafras albidum

    Tsuga canadensis

    Lindera benzoin

    Rosa multiflora

    Vaccinium corymbosum

    Viburnum lantana

    Viburnum sieboldii

    Ageratina altissima

    Alliaria petiolata

    Berberis thunbergii

    Carex gracillima

    Carex

    Celastrus orbiculatus

    Eurybia divaricata

    Euthamia graminifolia

    Geranium maculatum

    Onoclea sensibilis

    Parthenocissus quinquefolia

    Pilea pumila

    Solidago

    Toxicodendron radicans

    Viburnum recognitum

    Norway maple

    red maple

    white ash

    sassafras

    eastern hemlock

    northern spicebush

    multiflora rose

    highbush blueberry

    wayfaringtree

    Siebold's arrowwood

    white snakeroot

    garlic mustard

    Japanese barberry

    graceful sedge

    sedge

    Oriental bittersweet

    white wood aster

    flat-top goldentop

    spotted geranium

    sensitive fern

    Virginia creeper

    Canadian clearweed

    goldenrod

    eastern poison ivy

    southern arrowwood

    tree

    tree

    tree

    tree

    tree

    shrub/vine

    shrub/vine

    shrub/vine

    shrub/vine

    shrub/vine

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    20

    10

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

    densic material

    noncoherent

    98 - 112

    - 14 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    redox concentrations

    aquic conditions

    cambic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    densic contact

    densic materials

    0—23

    23—112

    23—112

    23—98

    52—112

    98—

    98—112

    —23—

    —89—

    —89—

    —75—

    —60—

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    —14—
    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

    6

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    203

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    58

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face fine sandy loam; weak granular structure; very friable; many very fine roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 21N00194; moist when described; observed in trench
    Ap—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; very few very fine roots throughout and few medium roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-50-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 21N00195, 21N00196; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bw1—23 to 52 centimeters (9.1 to 20.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; many very fine roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and many coarse roots throughout; 5 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-50-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 21N00197; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bw2—52 to 61 centimeters (20.5 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; very few fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 20 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 76-150-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-50-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 21N00198; moist when described; observed in trench
    BC1—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face sandy loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; very few fine roots top of horizon; 15 percent prominent gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, iron depletions throughout and 25 percent faint dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 76-150-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-50-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 21N00199; moist when described; observed in trench
    BC2—81 to 98 centimeters (31.9 to 38.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) broken face sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent faint dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 10 percent prominent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-50-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 21N00200; moist when described; observed in trench. Water seeping in at 104cm
    Cd—98 to 112 centimeters (38.6 to 44.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face gravelly sandy loam; structureless massive; very firm; 10 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 10 percent faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist, iron depletions throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 76-150-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-50-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 21N00201; moist when described; observed in trench