IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Penobscot
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2004ME019001
  • User Pedon ID: 2004ME019001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Lincoln
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0220
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17659
  • 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: 44.8809444
  • Std. Longitude: -69.2921667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Corinna, ME
  • Map Unit: SpB—Sebasticook-Penobscot association, 3 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-H3—Corinna, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David Turcotte/ Ted Butler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Penobscot
  • PSC - 25 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/8/2016
  • Classifier - SSOL
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Penobscot
  • Classificaton Date - 8/2/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lodgment till over residuum
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: Gentle hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent phyllite at 76cm with =>200
  • Geology: Waterville formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/2/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9209-25
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 27
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    moderately coherent

    76 -

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

    cambic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    paralithic materials

    lithic contact

    23—46

    46—76

    46—76

    76—

    —23—

    —30—

    —30—

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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

    4

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    —

    105

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dusky red (10R 3/4) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dry; gravelly loam; 8 percent clay; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume flat angular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat angular 2-25-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bw—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); 95 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face and 5 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face gravelly loam; 8 percent clay; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume flat angular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench. Secondary colors represent very friable weathered fine to meium gravels.
    2Cr—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); variegated coarse sandy loam; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; fragments; very slight effervescence; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench. 1.) Secondary colors represent very friable weathered fine to medium gravels. 2.) 10YR 6/3 sil soil in cracks; tilt of plates about 30 degrees off vertical; no roots due to frequent tilling without being cropped.
    R—76 to 86 centimeters (29.9 to 33.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in trench