IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Not designated
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S07ME003006.Elliottsville
  • User Pedon ID: S07ME003006.Elliottsville
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S07ME003006.Elliottsville
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0116
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19623
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 46.9500639
  • Std. Longitude: -69.3167694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15
  • Range: 12
  • Location Description: BG02 RD MILE 18 MICHAUD FARM RD ALLAGASH GATE CROSS BEN GLAZIER BROOK
  • Map Unit: 76C—Telos-Chesuncook-Ragmuff association, 3 to 15 percent slopes, rocky
  • 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-H3—McKinnon Brook, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MJK
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, frigid, shallow Aquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Not designated
  • PSC - 33 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/10/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elliottsville
  • Classificaton Date - 10/3/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: sandstone, unspecified at 81cm
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent nonflat subrounded 250- to 600-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/3/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9210-28
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 16
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABBA

    ACSA3

    FAGR

    Abies balsamea

    Acer saccharum

    Fagus grandifolia

    balsam fir

    sugar maple

    American beech

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

    ochric epipedon

    sapric soil materials

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithic contact

    0—13

    0—8

    8—13

    13—23

    23—56

    56—

    56—81

    56—81

    56—81

    81—

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

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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

    8

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    —

    397

    —

    241

    905

    —

    105

    3.1

    16.4

    0.8

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    171472

    Clayton Lake

    U.S. Official
    Oa—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); 10YR 2.5/2 (10YR 2.5/2) highly decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00783; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. roots; many f throughout few m throughout many vf throughout
    E—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; 14 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 08N00784; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. Roots; many f throughout many vf throughout
    Bs1—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) loam; 12 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-30-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00785; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. Roots; many f throughout many vf throughout
    Bs2—23 to 35 centimeters (9.1 to 13.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) very gravelly loam; 12 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 76-125-300 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00786; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. Roots; few f throughout few m throughout
    BC—35 to 56 centimeters (13.8 to 22.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) very gravelly loam; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 76-125-300 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00787; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. Roots; few f around fragments; Redox features occur in last 10cm of BC horizon, 46-56cm.
    Cd—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) gravelly loam; 17 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented olive gray (5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 2 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-30-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00788; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    R—81 centimeters (31.9 inches); fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry