IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Woodbridge
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2020CT013013
  • User Pedon ID: S2020CT013013
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2020CT013013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 21N0051
  • User Project ID: 2021-12TOL003_done
  • Project Name: DSP CT 2021 Science of Soil Health UCONN
  • Print Date: 4/17/2026

    • 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: 41.8216111
  • Std. Longitude: -72.2532778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 46B—Woodbridge fine sandy loam, 0 to 8 percent slopes, very stony
  • 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 Oxyaquic Humudepts
  • 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 Oxyaquic Humudepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 87 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/18/2020
  • Classifier - G. Vega
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • 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: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent 250- to 600-millimeter mixed, 0.25 percent 600 mixed, 0.50 percent 76- to 250-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • RaCA Information:
  • DSP Plot ID - PaU2-1

    • 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 - 29
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACPL

    ACRU

    ACSA3

    FRAM2

    ACPL

    BETH

    BETH

    POAC4

    Acer platanoides

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharum

    Fraxinus americana

    Acer platanoides

    Berberis thunbergii

    Berberis thunbergii

    Polystichum acrostichoides

    Norway maple

    red maple

    sugar maple

    white ash

    Norway maple

    Japanese barberry

    Japanese barberry

    Christmas fern

    tree

    tree

    tree

    tree

    shrub/vine

    shrub/vine

    —

    —

    20

    5

    5

    40

    1

    1

    1

    1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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

    densic material

    noncoherent

    87 - 120

    - 33 -

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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    densic materials

    densic contact

    0—25

    25—87

    47—120

    47—120

    66—120

    87—120

    87—

    —25—

    —62—

    —73—

    —73—

    —54—

    —33—

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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

    12

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    —

    205

    —

    146

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, dry; fine sandy loam; moderate 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; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 21N00208, 21N00209; moist when described; observed in trench
    Ap—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; many very fine roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and many coarse roots throughout; 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 # 21N00210; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bw1—25 to 47 centimeters (9.8 to 18.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout; 1 percent by volume charcoal fragments and 6 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-50-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; 2 percent krotovinas (volume percent); gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 21N00211; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bw2—47 to 66 centimeters (18.5 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; common very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; 8 percent medium faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 2 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; 2 percent krotovinas (volume percent); clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 21N00212; moist when described; observed in trench
    BC—66 to 87 centimeters (26.0 to 34.3 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face gravelly sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; 5 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 76-150-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 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 # 21N00213; moist when described; observed in trench
    Cd—87 to 120 centimeters (34.3 to 47.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face gravelly fine sandy loam; structureless massive; firm; 5 percent fine faint gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 5 percent medium faint gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 10 percent fine distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 76-150-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-50-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 21N00214; moist when described; observed in trench