IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Adams
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S07ME003002.Adams
  • User Pedon ID: S07ME003002.Adams
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S07ME003002.Adams
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0112
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19619
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 46.8167500
  • Std. Longitude: -69.5289444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13
  • Range: 14
  • Location Description: Road across from Maibec Left on first road and to the end Sand Pit.
  • Map Unit: 21C—Masardis-Adams complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME003—Aroostook
  • MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 12-7—Presque Isle, Maine
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME621—Western Aroostook County Area, Maine
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46069-G5—Seven Islands, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tony Jenkins, Mary Jo Kimble, Donna Doel, William Roberts
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, isotic, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Adams
  • PSC - 35 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/18/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Adams
  • Classificaton Date - 9/26/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - tree
  • Forest Understory Veg. Type - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landscape: outwash plain
  • Landform: esker
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/26/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9202-96
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 21
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABBA

    BEPA

    CHTH2

    PIGL

    PIST

    Abies balsamea

    Betula papyrifera

    Chamaecyparis thyoides

    Picea glauca

    Pinus strobus

    balsam fir

    paper birch

    Atlantic white cedar

    white spruce

    eastern white pine

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

    hemic soil materials

    ochric epipedon

    sapric soil materials

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    cambic horizon

    0—3

    0—20

    3—10

    10—20

    20—38

    38—71

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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

    9

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    322

    —

    340

    905

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    105

    3.1

    16.4

    0.8

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    171472

    Clayton Lake

    U.S. Official
    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face moderately decomposed plant material; moderate medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-37-76 millimeter granitoid fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.9, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00758; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oa—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face highly decomposed plant material; moderate medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-37-76 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.9, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00759; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) broken face fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-37-76 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00760; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bhs—20 to 25 centimeters (7.9 to 9.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) crushed fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-37-76 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, hellige-truog; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 08N00761; moist when described; observed in pit, small. FSL texture is OOSRIC by a fraction of a percent sand. Field texture was LFS.
    Bs1—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) crushed sand; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-37-76 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00762; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs2—38 to 48 centimeters (15.0 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sand; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-37-76 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00763; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) sand; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-35-76 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00764; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—71 to 124 centimeters (28.0 to 48.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) stratified stratified sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00765; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—124 to 165 centimeters (48.8 to 65.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) stratified stratified loamy fine sand; structureless single grain; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 08N00766; moist when described; observed in pit, small