IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Caribou
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988ME003001D
  • User Pedon ID: 88ME003001D
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0721
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60839
  • 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: 46.0152779
  • Std. Longitude: -68.0197220
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Plot No. 1-5W.
  • 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—22

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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 and medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03851. common fine and medium roots
    1Ap2—15 to 22 centimeters (5.9 to 8.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior gravelly loam; weak fine platy, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03852. few fine and medium roots
    1BC—22 to 32 centimeters (8.7 to 12.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P03853. few fine roots
    2C—32 to 62 centimeters (12.6 to 24.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; massive; firm; 0.1 fine roots; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 88P03854. Roots in upper part of horizon, 25% soft easily crushed shale fragments.; very few fine roots
    2R—62 to 72 centimeters (24.4 to 28.3 inches); fragments.