IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wassookeag
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2003ME019007
  • User Pedon ID: 2003ME019007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0381
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15797
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 44.9948056
  • Std. Longitude: -69.0161389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 78 feet S-SE of edge of farm road 770' from the edge of Route 15 directly across the street from Libby dairy farm homestead (to the right of the Big Apple store in Corinth).
  • Map Unit: WpB—Wassookeag-Penobscot complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME019—Penobscot
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-DFX—Dover-Foxcroft, Maine
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME612—Penobscot County, Maine, Southern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44069-H1—West Corinth, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David Turcotte
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, frigid Oxyaquic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wassookeag
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/13/2011
  • Classifier - SSOL
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nokomis
  • Classificaton Date - 7/14/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lodgment till over residuum
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: Low flat plain
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent phyllite at 148cm with <10
  • Geology: Waterville formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/14/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

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    119 - 148

    148 -

    - 29 -

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

    cambic horizon

    redox concentrations

    paralithic materials

    lithic contact

    30—66

    66—148

    119—148

    148—

    —36—

    —82—

    —29—

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    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

    1

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    104

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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) gravelly silt loam; 1 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 2.5/2) fine mottles; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat angular 2-20-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) gravelly sandy loam; 6 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak medium platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.3 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-100-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat angular 2-25-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); 70 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 30 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; 10 percent clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium dendritic tubular and 0.2 fine dendritic tubular pores; 4 percent fine prominent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) and 4 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 8 percent medium faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3); 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat angular 2-25-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—74 to 119 centimeters (29.1 to 46.9 inches); silt loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume flat angular 2-25-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume flat angular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Cr—119 to 147 centimeters (46.9 to 57.9 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small
    R—147 centimeters (57.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small