IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rawsonville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007ME003007.Tunbridge
  • User Pedon ID: S07ME003007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007ME003007.Tunbridge
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0117
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19624
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 46.9668503
  • Std. Longitude: -68.8167725
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15
  • Range: 8
  • Location Description: Hewes Brook Road to Black Pond rd to last left.
  • Map Unit: 39D—Becket-Tunbridge association, 15 to 35 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: 46068-H7—Deboullie Pond, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MJK
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic, frigid Typic Haplohumods
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rawsonville
  • PSC - 30 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/2014
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tunbridge
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Typic Haplorthod
  • Taxon Kind - taxon above family
  • Classificaton Date - 10/15/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy subglacial till
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: metasedimentary rock, unspecified at 86cm
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent nonflat rounded 250- to 600-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/15/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • 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 - rain
  • Current Air Temp - 12
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABBA

    ACSA3

    FAGR

    PIGL

    Abies balsamea

    Acer saccharum

    Fagus grandifolia

    Picea glauca

    balsam fir

    sugar maple

    American beech

    white spruce

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    86 -

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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

    lithic contact

    0—8

    0—5

    5—8

    8—23

    86—

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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

    12

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    422

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    300

    905

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    105

    3.1

    16.4

    0.8

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    171472

    Clayton Lake

    U.S. Official
    Oa—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) highly decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00789; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    E—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) gravelly silt loam; 11 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 2 percent by volume flat 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume , 30 percent by weight 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00790; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bhs—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) gravelly loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 29 percent by volume , 42 percent by weight 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00791; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bs—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; 9 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout; 29 percent by volume , 42 percent by weight 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00792; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    BC—41 to 86 centimeters (16.1 to 33.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) extremely gravelly loam; 8 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 76-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume , 77 percent by weight 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00793; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    R—86 centimeters (33.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, large or quarry