IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wassookeag

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: ME-02-04-019-16

User Pedon ID: ME-02-04-019-16

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes

Lab Pedon # - 02N0503

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14104

Print Date: 5/20/2024

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: 45.0161111

Std. Longitude: -69.0250000

Datum: WGS84

Map Unit: WpB—Wassookeag-Penobscot complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes

State: Maine

County: ME019—Penobscot

MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part

Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME612—Penobscot County, Maine, Southern Part

PEDON

Describers Name: Turcotte

Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, frigid Oxyaquic Eutrudepts

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description

Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Wassookeag

PSC - 25 to 100 cm.

Classificaton Date - 2/11/2010

Classifier - SSOL

Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition

Moisture Class - udic

Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Nokomis

Classificaton Date - 4/12/2002

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: lodgment till over residuum

Landscape: till plain

Landform: Low flat plain

Geomorphic Component Flats: rise

Drainage Class: moderately well

Bedrock: at 119cm

Geology: Waterville formation.

Surface Fragments:

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 4/12/2002 (actual site observation date)

Air Photo ID: 9195-78

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
bedrock, lithic	—	119 -	—

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
cambic horizon redox depletions with chroma 2 or less lithic contact	26—66 66—119 119—	—40— —53— —-

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	—	—	79	—		—	—	120	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Ap—0 to 26 centimeters (0.0 to 10.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; strong medium angular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat angular 2-25-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat angular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Bw1—26 to 43 centimeters (10.2 to 16.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) loam; 44 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 8 percent clay; 1 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) and 1 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) and 2 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) and 3 percent black (7.5YR 2.5/1) mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat angular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Bw2—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) parachannery silt loam; 42 percent sand; 51 percent silt; 8 percent clay; 1 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) and 1 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 2 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) and 3 percent black (10YR 2/1) mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat angular 2-25-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat angular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; diffuse smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small

C—66 to 119 centimeters (26.0 to 46.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) loam; 46 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat subangular 150-200-380 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small

R—119 centimeters (46.9 inches); parachanners; 5 percent by volume flat angular 2-30-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very weakly coherent cemented 75-100-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat angular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter unspecified fragments.; observed in pit, small