IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ragmuff

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: S2007ME003008.Tunbridge

User Pedon ID: S07ME003008

Vegetation Plot ID: S2007ME003008.Tunbridge

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes

Lab Source ID - SSL

Lab Pedon # - 08N0118

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19625

Print Date: 11/21/2024

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: 46.5664444

Std. Longitude: -68.7292252

Datum: WGS84

Township: 10

Range: 8

Location Description: Back of Jack Mountain Road Pg 57 in DeLorme atlas upper left. Aroostook County.

Map Unit: 89D—Monson-Elliottsville complex, 15 to 35 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: 46068-E6—Jack Mountain, Maine

PEDON

Describers Name: DH, NAD, DG

Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic, frigid Aquic Haplorthods

Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct

Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series

Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS

Pedon #: 8

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Ragmuff

PSC - 38 to 66 cm.

Classificaton Date - 4/1/2014

Classifier - Roger DeKett

Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition

Moisture Class - aquic

Moisture Subclass - typic

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Tunbridge

Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Typic Haplorthod

Taxon Kind - series

Classificaton Date - 9/11/2007

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: loamy subglacial till

Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope

Hill Slope Profile: backslope

Slope Complexity: simple

Slope Shape Across: convex

Slope Shape Down: concave

Drainage Class: well

Flooding: none flooding

Ponding: none ponding

Bedrock: metasedimentary rock, unspecified at 66cm

Surface Fragments: 3.00 percent nonflat subrounded 75- to 300-millimeter

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 9/11/2007 (actual site observation date)

Air Photo ID: 9196-114

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 - overcast

Current Air Temp - 22

Vegetation Plot Plants
Plant Symbol	Scientific Name	National Vernacular Name	Plant Type Group	Canopy Cover %	Vegetation Stata Level
FAGR PIGL RUOC	Fagus grandifolia Picea glauca Rubus occidentalis	American beech white spruce black raspberry	— — —	— — —	— — —

Pedon Restrictions
Kind	Hardness	Restriction Depth L-H	Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
		cm
bedrock, lithic	indurated	66 -	—

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 aquic conditions redox concentrations redox depletions with chroma 2 or less lithic contact	0—8 0—18 8—13 13—18 18—36 36—66 56—66 56—66 66—	—- —- —- —- —- —- —- —- —-

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
17	—	—	341	—	210	905	—	105	3.1	16.4	0.8	—	—	—	—	—	171472	Clayton Lake	U.S. Official

Oe—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) moderately decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00794; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. roots; common f throughout

Oa—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) highly decomposed plant material; 13 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00795; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. roots; common f throughout common m throughout

E—13 to 18 centimeters (5.1 to 7.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) gravelly silt loam; 14 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very thin platy structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 18 percent by volume , 28 percent by weight nonflat subrounded 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00796; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. roots; many f throughout

Bs1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) gravelly loam; 12 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 31 percent by volume , 45 percent by weight nonflat subrounded 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00797; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. roots; many f throughout common m throughout

Bs2—36 to 66 centimeters (14.2 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) very gravelly coarse sandy loam; 12 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 5 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume subrounded 76-125-300 millimeter unspecified fragments and 56 percent by volume , 69 percent by weight subrounded 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00798; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. roots; few f throughout few m throughout

R—66 centimeters (26.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, large or quarry