IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Caribou
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988ME003001A
  • User Pedon ID: 88ME003001A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0718
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60836
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 46.0152779
  • Std. Longitude: -68.0197220
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Plot No 2-1W.
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME003—Aroostook
  • MLRA: 146—Aroostook Area

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lytle, Olson and Grossman
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Caribou
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Haplorthods
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—24

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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

    6

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    190

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    0

    102

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    1Ap1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; gravelly loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 0.3 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03841. common fine roots
    1Ap2—15 to 24 centimeters (5.9 to 9.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.3 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 15 percent faint , moist, coats on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03842. Slightly compacted.; few coats surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223405; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223405
    1C—24 to 60 centimeters (9.4 to 23.6 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior gravelly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak medium platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 fine roots; 0.3 very fine and fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 88P03843. very few fine roots