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In the red circle was my dig location. This was at the edge of the woods, in a field in East Hardwick, VT. photo from https://earth.google.com/web/@44.54611335,-72.2774028,389.53323342a,286.64784756d,35.0000005y,-11.04756966h,44.52950497t,0r
For this project I started out by digging down to about 2 feet. I found that there was a lot of rock, that I was trying to scrape through with my shovel. Once I couldn't get much further, I used my fathers excavator to go down several more feet. I did this to see if the layer of rock would continue, which it did. The line between the A horizon and B horizon is not clearly present in this image, there was a shift in color around 8 inches.
This is one of the Munsell soil-color charts. Image from https://soils.uga.edu/files/2016/08/Munsell.pdf
This is the log I made of my soil pit. All of my soil colors are in Munsell soil-color chart notation.
This is my picture, split up into the different layers. The top is the A horizon, the middle is B horizon, and the bottom is a layer of old crumbly bedrock.
I know for a fact that this area has been disturbed very little, if at all. The only thing that has ever been done to it is the removal of overgrown thicket. None of the soil has ever been plowed, or anything like that. The lowest layer is likely glacial till placed on top of old rock. The sandy loam layers were then deposited on top of it.
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