IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rawsonville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007ME021006.Tunbridge
  • User Pedon ID: S07ME021006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007ME021006.Tunbridge
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0125
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19632
  • 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: 45.5625000
  • Std. Longitude: -69.1541672
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: See Topographical Quad and lat/long or UTM coordinates.
  • Map Unit: 48D—Marlow-Dixfield-Rawsonville association, 15 to 35 percent slopes, very bouldery
  • 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: 45069-E2—Big Shanty Mountain, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tony Jenkins, with Carl
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic, frigid Typic Haplohumods
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rawsonville
  • PSC - 30 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/31/2014
  • 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 - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/3/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: subglacial till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: mountain
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, center third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered metasedimentary rock, unspecified at 69cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/3/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACSA3

    FAGUS

    Acer saccharum

    Fagus

    sugar maple

    beech

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    69 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—11

    5—11

    11—69

    69—

    —11—

    —6—

    —58—

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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

    21

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    424

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    15

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    Oa—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 2.5/2) crushed highly decomposed plant material; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 very coarse roots throughout and 8.0 fine and medium roots throughout and 10.0 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00841; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—5 to 11 centimeters (2.0 to 4.3 inches); gray (7.5YR 6/1) interior very gravelly silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 very coarse roots throughout and 8.0 fine and medium roots throughout and 10.0 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 33 percent by volume , 48 percent by weight 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00842; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bhs1—11 to 18 centimeters (4.3 to 7.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) crushed very gravelly loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 very coarse roots throughout and 8.0 fine and medium roots throughout and 10.0 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 25 percent by volume , 38 percent by weight 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00843; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bhs2—18 to 35 centimeters (7.1 to 13.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) crushed very gravelly silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 4.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 32 percent by volume , 46 percent by weight 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00844; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bhs3—35 to 44 centimeters (13.8 to 17.3 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) crushed extremely gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 65 percent by volume , 78 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00845; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs—44 to 69 centimeters (17.3 to 27.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) crushed extremely gravelly loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 60 percent by volume , 74 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00846; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—69 centimeters (27.2 inches); fragments; abrupt irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small