IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Easton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2011ME003011
  • User Pedon ID: 2011ME003011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11ME003011.Easton
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7797
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50890
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 46.7153611
  • Std. Longitude: -67.9821944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Reach road
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME003—Aroostook
  • MLRA: 146—Aroostook Area
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 12-7—Presque Isle, Maine
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME607—Aroostook County, Maine, Northeastern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46067-F8—Easton, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Matt Dorman, Mary jo Kimble, Greg Granger, Tony Jenkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, frigid Aeric Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Easton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, frigid Aeric Endoaquepts
  • PSC - 25 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/26/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - tree
  • Forest Understory Veg. Type - none
  • Forest Groundcover Veg. Type Dominant - none
  • Hydric: yes


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy lodgment till derived from limestone and sandstone
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: on a slope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 250- to 600-millimeter igneous, unspecified, 10.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 250- to 600-millimeter igneous, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/26/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Kind: microlow
  • 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? - yes
  • Current Weather - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 10
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PIAB

    Picea abies

    Norway spruce

    —

    —

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

    densic material

    very strongly coherent

    80 - 165

    0 - 85 -

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

    fibric soil materials

    ochric epipedon

    reduced matrix

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    densic materials

    0—2

    2—27

    27—65

    27—80

    80—165

    80—165

    —2—

    —25—

    —38—

    —53—

    —85—

    —85—
    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

    2

    —

    —

    202

    —

    35

    979

    —

    125

    4.3

    17.4

    -9.9

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    171175

    NWS Caribou

    US Official
    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) rubbed peat; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; extremely low vertical penetration resistance; low excavation difficulty; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap—2 to 27 centimeters (0.8 to 10.6 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, dry; silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate vertical penetration resistance; moderate excavation difficulty; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; wet when described; observed in pit, small
    Bg—27 to 65 centimeters (10.6 to 25.6 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior cobbly loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate vertical penetration resistance; moderate excavation difficulty; 2 percent fine prominent cubic noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron masses with clear boundaries in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; wet, non-satiated when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—65 to 80 centimeters (25.6 to 31.5 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) interior cobbly clay loam; 27 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; high vertical penetration resistance; high excavation difficulty; 5 percent fine and medium prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 15 percent fine and medium faint irregular grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; wet, satiated when described; observed in pit, small
    Cd—80 to 165 centimeters (31.5 to 65.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) interior very cobbly clay loam; 27 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very high vertical penetration resistance; high excavation difficulty; 5 percent fine and medium faint irregular grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 5 percent fine and medium prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments.; wet, satiated when described; observed in pit, small