IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Woodbridge
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2020CT013012
  • User Pedon ID: S2020CT013012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2020CT013012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 21N0050
  • 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: 41.8210000
  • Std. Longitude: -72.2513889
  • 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: DP, GB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Humic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • 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 Humic Dystrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 67 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 - PaM2-2

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/21/2020 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: DP, GB
  • 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

    FRAM2

    ROMU

    VISI

    AGAL5

    ALPE4

    CAREX

    EUDI16

    EUGR5

    LIBE3

    ONSE

    PIPU2

    POAC4

    POSA5

    ROMU

    RUOC

    SOLID

    TORA2

    Acer platanoides

    Fraxinus americana

    Rosa multiflora

    Viburnum sieboldii

    Ageratina altissima

    Alliaria petiolata

    Carex

    Eurybia divaricata

    Euthamia graminifolia

    Lindera benzoin

    Onoclea sensibilis

    Pilea pumila

    Polystichum acrostichoides

    Polygonum sagittatum

    Rosa multiflora

    Rubus occidentalis

    Solidago

    Toxicodendron radicans

    Norway maple

    white ash

    multiflora rose

    Siebold's arrowwood

    white snakeroot

    garlic mustard

    sedge

    white wood aster

    flat-top goldentop

    northern spicebush

    sensitive fern

    Canadian clearweed

    Christmas fern

    arrowleaf tearthumb

    multiflora rose

    black raspberry

    goldenrod

    eastern poison ivy

    tree

    tree

    shrub/vine

    shrub/vine

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    1

    50

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    10

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

    densic material

    noncoherent

    67 - 108

    - 41 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    densic materials

    densic contact

    0—19

    19—67

    49—108

    49—108

    49—67

    67—108

    67—

    —19—

    —48—

    —59—

    —59—

    —18—

    —41—

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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

    18

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    202

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    52

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    A—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; many very fine roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and many coarse 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 # 21N00202, 21N00203; moist when described; observed in trench
    Ap—7 to 19 centimeters (2.8 to 7.5 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; many very fine roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and many coarse roots throughout; 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-50-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 21N00203, 21N00204; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bw1—19 to 34 centimeters (7.5 to 13.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) broken face sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; common medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-50-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 21N00205; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bw2—34 to 49 centimeters (13.4 to 19.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-50-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 21N00206; moist when described; observed in trench
    BC—49 to 67 centimeters (19.3 to 26.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; 5 percent coarse faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 5 percent fine distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-50-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 21N00207; moist when described; observed in trench. Iron depletions are fine to coarse in size.
    Cd1—67 to 86 centimeters (26.4 to 33.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face gravelly sandy loam; structureless massive; firm; very few very fine roots throughout; distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings around rock fragments and 10 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-50-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    Cd2—86 to 108 centimeters (33.9 to 42.5 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face gravelly sandy loam; structureless massive, and weak thin platy; firm; very few fine roots throughout; 2 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-50-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method.; moist when described; observed in trench