IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Penobscot
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2003ME019009
  • User Pedon ID: 2003ME019009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2003ME019009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0378
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15794
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 44.9666667
  • Std. Longitude: -69.2008333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Corinna, ME
  • Map Unit: CPC—Corinna-Penobscot complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes, rocky
  • 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ted Butler/ EED
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Penobscot
  • PSC - 25 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/7/2016
  • Classifier - SSOL
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Penobscot
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/20/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lodgment till over residuum
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: knoll
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: phyllite at 69cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Waterville formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/20/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9205-131
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 27
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PIST

    Pinus strobus

    eastern white pine

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    69 -

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

    lithologic discontinuity

    cambic horizon

    paralithic materials

    lithic contact

    20—69

    20—41

    41—69

    69—

    —49—

    —21—

    —28—

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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

    6

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    94

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    243

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    140

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face parachannery silt loam; 7 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots between peds and 2.0 medium roots between peds and 1.0 fine roots between peds and 0.5 coarse roots between peds; 5 percent by volume flat angular 2-25-150 millimeter metamorphic, foliated fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter metamorphic, foliated fragments and 10 percent by volume flat angular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter metamorphic, foliated fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face channery loam; 44 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter metamorphic, foliated fragments and 10 percent by volume flat angular 2-25-150 millimeter metamorphic, foliated fragments and 20 percent by volume flat angular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter metamorphic, foliated fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; clear irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Cr—41 to 69 centimeters (16.1 to 27.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face extremely parachannery sandy loam; 67 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 7 percent clay; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.2 very fine roots in cracks and 0.1 fine roots in cracks; 75 percent by volume flat angular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-30-150 millimeter metamorphic, foliated fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—69 centimeters (27.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small