Purpose

This webpage brings together data from the soil pits we’ve dug as a class this semester. Specifically, this shows horizonation (depths and designations) and associated soil color and texture. It compares these to the soil series mapped for the area to help us determine if we uncovered one soil or the other or a transition between two of them.

This tool also gives us an opportunity to reflect on two things:

  1. Our learning this semester and where we feel our skills with respect to these methods are at; and

  2. The variability and gradients of soils across the landscape and even across the pits we dug in relatively close proximity.

Jericho Research Forest

Profiles (including nearby soil series)

In these sections we compare the depths of horizons and color to those of the soils mapped for the area. Should we consider other soil series, if our horizonation doesn’t seem to match any of the options? Which ones?

Texture Depth Plots

These sections compare your texture-by-feel estimates to the ranges for textural classes associated with each other soil series mapped for each area.

Shelburne Farms

Texture Depth Plots

Underhill State Park

Profiles (including nearby soil series)

Texture Depth Plots

Intervale

Profiles (including nearby soil series)

Texture Depth Plots