IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Becket
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 55ME019005
  • User Pedon ID: 55ME019005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0418
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32946
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 44.9916667
  • Std. Longitude: -68.7991667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: idle field 2 miles W of Old Town on route 43
  • Map Unit: SbB—Skerry-Becket complex, 3 to 8 percent slopes, very bouldery
  • 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-H7—Pushaw Lake, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. S. Hardesty, K. V. Goodman
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Becket
  • PSC - 25 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/16/2012
  • Classifier - Nick Butler
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Plaisted
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, isotic, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • Classificaton Date - 10/12/1955
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lodgment till
  • Landform: drumlinoid ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/12/1955 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9195-277
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

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    46 - 147

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

    spodic horizon

    densic contact

    13—33

    46—

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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

    5

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    43

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    68

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face sandy loam; 5 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine roots top of horizon and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs1—13 to 15 centimeters (5.1 to 5.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face sandy loam; 4 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs2—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face loamy fine sand; 2 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face gravelly loamy fine sand; 1 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; extremely firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume nonflat 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cd1—46 to 91 centimeters (18.1 to 35.8 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) broken face gravelly sandy loam; 0 percent clay; weak thick platy structure; extremely firm; 15 percent by volume nonflat 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cd2—91 to 147 centimeters (35.8 to 57.9 inches); light gray (5Y 7/2) broken face gravelly sandy loam; 0 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely firm; 15 percent by volume nonflat 2-32-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. this horizon grades into quarzitic and slaty till with granite boulders