IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Woodbridge
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2020CT013020
  • User Pedon ID: S2020CT013020
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 21N0058
  • 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: 41.7541389
  • Std. Longitude: -72.2345833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 84B—Paxton and Montauk fine sandy loams, 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: DAS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Aquic 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 Aquic Humudepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 23 to 50 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/11/2020
  • Classifier - M. Vega
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lodgment till
  • Landscape: glaciated upland
  • Landform: drumlin
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • RaCA Information:
  • DSP Plot ID - PaH2-1

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/11/2020 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: DP,MV,GB,DAS
  • 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 - 26
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    redox concentrations

    aquic conditions

    0—18

    23—38

    23—50

    23—50

    23—50

    —18—

    —15—

    —27—

    —27—

    —27—
    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

    3

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    174

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    328

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    Ap1—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, dry; fine sandy loam; moderate medium granular, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 21N00252, 21N00253; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—12 to 23 centimeters (4.7 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, dry; fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 21N00254; dry when described; observed in pit, small. plowpan @ 17 cm
    Bw—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; 2 percent medium distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; 15 percent krotovinas (volume percent); clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 21N00255; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—38 to 50 centimeters (15.0 to 19.7 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; 5 percent fine faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 40 percent coarse distinct iron depletions throughout; 12 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; 5 percent krotovinas (volume percent). Lab sample # 21N00256; dry when described; observed in pit, small