IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vergennes
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VT001-1958-001-Vergennes-TP
  • User Pedon ID: VT001-1958-001-Vergennes-TP
  • User Site Association ID: VT Addison County, Vermont Typical Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5431
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42676
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 44.0180283
  • Std. Longitude: -73.2078552
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Addison County, Weybridge Town, 2 miles west of the village of Middlebury, Stanley James farm.
  • Map Unit: VgB—Vergennes clay, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT001—Addison
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT001—Addison County, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. A. Ferwerda
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, illitic, mesic Glossaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vergennes
  • Classificaton Date - 10/22/2008
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - WORTHINGTON
  • Classificaton Date - 10/16/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/16/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: DCC 3-137
  • 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
    • Setting and Climate
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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky, and strong fine granular structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A40815
    B21t—15 to 41 centimeters (5.9 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A40816
    B22t—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to strong thick platy parts to strong thin platy structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; clay films and 10 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A40817. patchy - phpvsfiid 427072; patchy - phpvsfiid 427072
    B23t—64 to 74 centimeters (25.2 to 29.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak thin platy, and medium, and thick structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; pale brown (10YR 6/3) clay films on faces of peds and 75 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A40818. patchy - phpvsfiid 427074; patchy - phpvsfiid 427074
    C1—74 to 89 centimeters (29.1 to 35.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay, silt; strong very thick platy parts to weak very thin platy, and thin structure; very firm; 3.0 roots; 75 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds and 75 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A40819. patchy - phpvsfiid 427076; patchy - phpvsfiid 427077; patchy - phpvsfiid 427076; patchy - phpvsfiid 427077
    C2—89 centimeters (35.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay, silt; strong very thick platy parts to weak thin platy, and very thin structure; very firm; 3.0 roots; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A40820