IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lyman
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S07ME025001.Monson
  • User Pedon ID: S07ME025001.Monson
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S07ME025001.Monson
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 3
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0130
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19637
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 46.0208333
  • Std. Longitude: -70.2021667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: on SE Flank of Hurricane Hil, on left side of trail going upslope
  • Map Unit: 89C—Ragmuff-Monson complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes, rocky
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME025—Somerset
  • MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains
  • 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: 46070-A2—Hurricane Hill, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dave E. Turcotte
  • 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 - Lyman
  • PSC - 27 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/10/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Monson
  • Classificaton Date - 9/16/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: subglacial till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: drumlinoid ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated metasedimentary rock, unspecified at 43cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/16/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9214-121
  • 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

    BETUL

    FAGR

    Acer saccharum

    Betula

    Fagus grandifolia

    sugar maple

    birch

    American beech

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    43 -

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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

    5—15

    15—43

    43—

    —10—

    —28—

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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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    524

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    90

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    Oe—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) crushed; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 8.0 very fine to medium roots throughout and 0.8 coarse roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00871; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 7.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 08N00872; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior silt loam; 19 percent clay; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 6.0 very fine to medium roots throughout and 0.6 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, pH meter; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 08N00873; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bhs—15 to 24 centimeters (5.9 to 9.4 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) crushed silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak very fine and fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 6.0 very fine to medium roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00874; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs—24 to 43 centimeters (9.4 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed silt loam; 13 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00875; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—43 centimeters (16.9 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small