IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Woodbridge
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2020CT013015
  • User Pedon ID: S2020CT013015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 21N0053
  • 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: 41.7995278
  • Std. Longitude: -72.1883333
  • 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: JI
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic 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 Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 35 to 94 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/19/2020
  • 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: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • RaCA Information:
  • DSP Plot ID - PaL1-1
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/23/2020 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: JI
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 29
  • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    94 - 112

    - 18 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

    densic contact

    densic materials

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    10—28

    28—94

    74—112

    74—112

    94—

    94—112

    94—112

    —18—

    —66—

    —38—

    —38—

    —-

    —18—

    —18—

    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

    140

    248

    ^A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; many very fine roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-50-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 21N00221; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    ^Bw—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; gravelly fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; many 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; 15 percent krotovinas (volume percent); abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 21N00222; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; gravelly fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; friable; common very fine roots throughout and few medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 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; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 21N00223; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—28 to 44 centimeters (11.0 to 17.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face gravelly fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; few dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 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; 40 percent krotovinas (volume percent); clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 21N00224; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC1—44 to 74 centimeters (17.3 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face gravelly fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; very few very fine roots throughout; few dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 250-400-600 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 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; 5 percent krotovinas (volume percent); clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 21N00225; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC2—74 to 94 centimeters (29.1 to 37.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face gravelly sandy loam; weak very coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; very few very fine roots throughout; 15 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 250-400-600 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 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 smooth boundary. Lab sample # 21N00226; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Firm Pockets
    Cd—94 to 112 centimeters (37.0 to 44.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face gravelly fine sandy loam; structureless massive; friable; very few very fine roots throughout; 15 percent coarse faint olive gray (5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 20 percent medium prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 250-400-600 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 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. Lab sample # 21N00227; moist when described; observed in pit, small. 10% Sand Pockets 10YR 5/6; Cd >3" = 1.0 kg