IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hogback
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007ME003009
  • User Pedon ID: S07ME003009.Hogback
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007ME003009.Lyman
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0119
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19626
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 46.9335327
  • Std. Longitude: -68.8502197
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15
  • Range: 9
  • Location Description: Denny Pond road. 1st logging road on right to flagging about 0.5 mile.
  • Map Unit: 94XE—Hogback-Rawsonville complex, 15 to 60 percent slopes, very bouldery
  • 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: Mary Jo Kimble
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, isotic, frigid Lithic Haplohumods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hogback
  • PSC - 28 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/7/2014
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lyman
  • Classificaton Date - 10/11/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • 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: loamy subglacial till derived from granite
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated moderate weathered granodiorite at 48cm
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 75- to 300-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/11/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9210-58
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Microrelief Kind: microhigh
  • 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 - rain
  • Current Air Temp - 20
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABBA

    ACSA3

    BEAL2

    FAGR

    Abies balsamea

    Acer saccharum

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Fagus grandifolia

    balsam fir

    sugar maple

    yellow birch

    American beech

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    48 -

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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—5

    0—3

    3—5

    5—30

    48—

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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

    20

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    —

    447

    —

    320

    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 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2/2) broken face highly decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 4 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-100-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; extremely acid, pH 3.9; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00799; moist when described; observed in pit, small. roots; many vf throughout many f throughout
    E—3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2.0 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) broken face gravelly loam; 11 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 7 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-100-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; extremely acid, pH 4.1; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00800; moist when described; observed in pit, small. roots; many vf throughout many f throughout
    Bhs—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) crushed gravelly sandy loam; 9 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 7 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-100-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00801; moist when described; observed in pit, small. roots; many vf throughout many f throughout
    Bs1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) crushed gravelly sandy loam; 9 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 15 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-100-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 16 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00802; moist when described; observed in pit, small. roots; few vf few m
    Bs2—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed channery sandy loam; 11 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 9 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 14 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-100-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00803; moist when described; observed in pit, small. roots; few f few m
    R—48 centimeters (18.9 inches); bedrock; extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments; none odor.; moist when described; observed in pit, small