IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chesuncook

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: 2007ME021003

User Pedon ID: 2007ME021003

Vegetation Plot ID: 2007ME021003

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - SSL

Lab Pedon # - 08N0122

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19629

Print Date: 11/21/2024

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: 46.0373611

Std. Longitude: -69.5956111

Datum: WGS84

Township: 5

Range: 15

Location Description: Ragmuff road and left on Deadmans road

Map Unit: 76C—Telos-Chesuncook-Ragmuff association, 3 to 15 percent slopes, rocky

Country: US—United States

State: Maine

County: ME021—Piscataquis

MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains

Regional Office: NE—Northeast

MLRA Soil Survey Area: 12-7—Presque Isle, MaineNE-DFX—Dover-Foxcroft, Maine

Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME620—Northern Piscataquis and Northern Somerset County Area, Maine

7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46069-A5—Ragmuff Stream, Maine

PEDON

Describers Name: Tony Jenkins

Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Aquic Haplorthods

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description

Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Chesuncook

PSC - 25 to 56 cm.

Classificaton Date - 2/3/2010

Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition

Moisture Class - udic

Moisture Subclass - aquic

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Chesuncook

Taxon Kind - series

Classificaton Date - 8/14/2007

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: lodgment till derived from metamorphic rock

Landscape: hills

Landform: hillslope

Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope

Hill Slope Profile: shoulder

Slope Position: upper third

Slope Complexity: simple

Slope Shape Across: linear

Slope Shape Down: convex

Drainage Class: moderately well

Flooding: none flooding

Ponding: none ponding

Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 250- to 600-millimeter mixed,

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 8/14/2007 (actual site observation date)

Surface Water Kind: none observed

Surface Cover Properties:

Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover

Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods

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
ACSA3	Acer saccharum	sugar maple	—	—	—

Pedon Restrictions
Kind	Hardness	Restriction Depth L-H	Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
		cm
densic material	noncoherent	56 -	—

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
fibric soil materials ochric epipedon hemic soil materials sapric soil materials albic horizon spodic horizon redox depletions with chroma 2 or less densic contact	0—1 0—10 1—3 3—5 5—10 10—50 51—165 56—	—- —- —- —- —5— —40— —114— —-

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
7	—	—	413	—	135	905	—	105	3.1	16.4	0.8	—	—	—	—	—	171472	Clayton Lake	US Official

Oi/Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); 67 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) crushed and 33 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed moderately decomposed plant material; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00819; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Oa—3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2.0 inches); black (5YR 2.5/1) crushed highly decomposed plant material; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout and 10.0 very coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.9, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00820; moist when described; observed in pit, small

E—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) interior silt loam; 8 percent clay; weak thin platy structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout and 10.0 very coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.7, pH meter; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 08N0021; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Bs1—10 to 15 centimeters (3.9 to 5.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) crushed silt loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 2.5 very fine to coarse roots throughout and 2.5 very coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 08N00822; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Bs2—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed silt loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2.5 very fine to coarse roots throughout and 2.5 very coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00823; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Bs3—30 to 50 centimeters (11.8 to 19.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) crushed silt loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00824; moist when described; observed in pit, small

BC—50 to 56 centimeters (19.7 to 22.0 inches); 98 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior gravelly silt loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine and medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions and 1 percent fine distinct 7.5Y 4/4 (7.5Y 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00825; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Cd1—56 to 102 centimeters (22.0 to 40.2 inches); 98 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face cobbly loam; 14 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky parts to weak thin platy structure; firm; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00826; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Cd2—102 to 165 centimeters (40.2 to 65.0 inches); 98 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face gravelly loam; 22 percent clay; structureless massive; firm; 40 percent coarse faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter. Lab sample # 08N00827; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket