IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Monson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S07ME021002.Monson
  • User Pedon ID: S07ME021002.Monson
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0121
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19628
  • 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: 46.0613000
  • Std. Longitude: -69.5646000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 89C—Ragmuff-Monson complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes, rocky
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME021—Piscataquis
  • MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 12-7—Presque Isle, Maine
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME620—Northern Piscataquis and Northern Somerset County Area, Maine
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46069-A5—Ragmuff Stream, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tony Jenkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, isotic, frigid Lithic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Monson
  • PSC - 8 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/25/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Monson
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: subglacial till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated metasedimentary rock, unspecified at 41cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat angular indurated 380- to 600-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/13/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    41 -

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

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    lithic contact

    8—10

    10—41

    41—

    —2—

    —31—

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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

    4

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    1275

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    Oa1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2/2) crushed highly decomposed plant material; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 8.0 very fine to medium roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00813; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oa2—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) crushed highly decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 8.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout and 8.0 very coarse roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.6; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00814; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—8 to 10 centimeters (3.1 to 3.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) interior silt loam; 5 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; ultra acid, pH 3.4; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00815; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs1—10 to 13 centimeters (3.9 to 5.1 inches); 80 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) crushed and 20 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) crushed silt loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00816; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs2—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) crushed silt loam; 14 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00817; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs3—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) crushed silt loam; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine to medium roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat very strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 08N00818; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—41 centimeters (16.1 inches); channers, silt loam; fragments.