IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wassookeag
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: ME-02-05-019-15
  • User Pedon ID: ME-02-05-019-15
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0502
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14103
  • 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: 44.9552778
  • Std. Longitude: -69.1830556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: WKB—Wassookeag-Kenduskeag complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes, very stony
  • 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, isotic, active, frigid Oxyaquic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • 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 - 5/21/2002
  • 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: 5/21/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9200112
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

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    119 -

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

    cambic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithic contact

    44—61

    61—119

    119—

    —17—

    —58—

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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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    120

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    A—0 to 44 centimeters (0.0 to 17.3 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 10 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Bw—44 to 61 centimeters (17.3 to 24.0 inches); 40 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 40 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 26 percent sand; 62 percent silt; 13 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat angular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described;
    2C1—61 to 73 centimeters (24.0 to 28.7 inches); silt loam; 24 percent sand; 68 percent silt; 9 percent clay; strong thin platy structure; firm, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat angular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described;
    2C2—73 to 119 centimeters (28.7 to 46.9 inches); silt loam; 26 percent sand; 63 percent silt; 11 percent clay; strong thin platy structure; nonsticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume flat angular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described;
    R—119 centimeters (46.9 inches); fragments.; moist when described;