IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nicholville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2011ME019009
  • User Pedon ID: 2011ME019009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2011ME019009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7817
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50910
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 44.8353611
  • Std. Longitude: -68.4982778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Site is located in Clifton, ME
  • Map Unit: ROB—Roundabout-Nicholville association, 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: 44068-G4—Hopkins Pond, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nick Butler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, isotic, frigid Aquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nicholville
  • PSC - 34 to 109 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/6/2016
  • Classifier - SSOL
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nicholville
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, isotic, frigid Aquic Haplorthods
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 34 to 109 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glaciolacustrine deposits
  • Landform: lake terrace
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.50 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 250- to 600-millimeter granite, 0.50 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 250- to 600-millimeter granite, 1.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 601- to 2500-millimeter granite, 1.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 601- to 2500-millimeter granite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9207-152
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 4
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABBA

    ACRU

    BEPA

    PICOC

    PIRU

    Abies balsamea

    Acer rubrum

    Betula papyrifera

    Pinus contorta var. contorta

    Picea rubens

    balsam fir

    red maple

    paper birch

    beach pine

    red spruce

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

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    redox concentrations

    abrupt textural change

    9—13

    13—26

    62—106

    62—106

    106—165

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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

    3

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    52

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    315

    1035

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    130

    6

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) broken face moderately decomposed plant material; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 1.5 very fine roots throughout and 1.5 medium roots throughout and 1.5 fine roots throughout and 1.5 coarse roots throughout; fragments; ultra acid, pH 3.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 009; moist when described; observed in trench
    Oa—5 to 9 centimeters (2.0 to 3.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face highly decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 1.5 very fine roots throughout and 1.5 medium roots throughout and 1.5 fine roots throughout and 1.5 coarse roots throughout; fragments; ultra acid, pH 3.4, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    E—9 to 13 centimeters (3.5 to 5.1 inches); gray (7.5YR 6/1) broken face silt loam; 5 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bhs—13 to 16 centimeters (5.1 to 6.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) crushed silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 micro roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; abrupt broken boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bs—16 to 26 centimeters (6.3 to 10.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed silt loam; 5 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    BC—26 to 62 centimeters (10.2 to 24.4 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face silt; 6 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    C—62 to 106 centimeters (24.4 to 41.7 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) broken face silt; 4 percent clay; moderate thick platy structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2 percent fine faint light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 2 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    2C—106 to 165 centimeters (41.7 to 65.0 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) broken face loamy fine sand; 1 percent clay; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in trench