IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pushaw
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2004ME019030
  • User Pedon ID: 2004ME019030
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2004ME019030
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Lincoln
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0231
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16848
  • Print Date: 12/18/2024

    • 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: 44.9880556
  • Std. Longitude: -69.0355556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Township of Corinth. From the intersection of Maine Route 11/43 and Notch Road, site is 4800 feet southeast along Notch Road, and 1000 feet northeast from road, in a grassed area at the edge of a cornfield.
  • Map Unit: PsB—Pushaw-Swanville 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: Dave Turcotte
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, nonacid, frigid Aeric Epiaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 30
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pushaw
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/22/2012
  • Classifier - SSOL
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Boothbay
  • Classificaton Date - 9/14/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glaciomarine deposits
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: drainageway
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/14/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9195-80
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    2GLA

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    Grasslike, annual

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

    cambic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

    episaturation

    18—38

    25—165

    25—165

    25—165

    38—46

    —20—

    —140—

    —140—

    —140—

    —8—
    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

    3

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    —

    61

    —

    90

    42

    —

    140

    44

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, dry; silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face silt loam; 25 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent medium faint olive gray (5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 3 percent fine faint olive gray (5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 10 percent fine faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BCg—38 to 46 centimeters (15.0 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent fine prominent dark reddish brown (5YR 2.5/2), moist, manganese coatings on faces of peds and 5 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 5 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 7 percent fine faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 8 percent medium faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; strong medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, very plastic; 0.8 very fine roots between peds and 0.8 fine roots; 2 percent medium faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds and 2 percent fine prominent dark reddish brown (5YR 2.5/2), moist, manganese coatings on faces of peds and 3 percent fine faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds and 5 percent fine distinct gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, iron depletions on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—66 to 165 centimeters (26.0 to 65.0 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; massive; firm, slightly sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent fine distinct gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 5 percent fine faint olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix surrounding redox depletions; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in pit, small