IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ragmuff
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S08ME003001
  • User Pedon ID: S08ME003001.Ragmuff
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S08ME003001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0143
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24115
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 46.8276333
  • Std. Longitude: -69.6891667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15
  • Range: 13
  • Location Description: Fenn Road, Houlton Pond quadrangle
  • Map Unit: 374B—Daigle-Aurelie-Ragmuff association, 0 to 8 percent slopes, rocky
  • 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: 46069-G6—Houlton Pond, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MJK, TJ, JJ
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Aquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: forestry data site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ragmuff
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Aquic Haplorthods
  • PSC - 30 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/17/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till derived from metamorphic rock
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent slate at 90cm
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 250- to 600-millimeter shale, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/17/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 3962-24
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Microrelief Kind: microhigh
  • Plant Association Name: Hardwood forest
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    ACSA3

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharum

    red maple

    sugar maple

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

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    densic material

    bedrock, lithic

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    very weakly coherent

    very strongly coherent

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    75 - 90

    90 -

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

    sapric soil materials

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    densic contact

    lithic contact

    0—5

    5—10

    10—30

    30—75

    55—75

    55—75

    55—75

    75—90

    90—

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

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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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    362

    —

    210

    905

    —

    105

    3.1

    16.4

    0.8

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    171472

    Clayton Lake

    U.S. Official
    Oa—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) broken face highly decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter slate fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; extremely acid, pH 4.1, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in cut. Roots: many very fine to very coarse throughout.
    E—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) broken face loam; 56 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 10 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-100-150 millimeter slate fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; extremely acid, pH 4.2, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; many very fine to very coarse throughout.
    Bhs—10 to 13 centimeters (3.9 to 5.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) crushed loam; 47 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-100-150 millimeter slate fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter slate fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; extremely acid, pH 3.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; many very fine to very coarse throughout.
    Bs1—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed gravelly loam; 56 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter slate fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter slate fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; common fine to coarse throughout.
    Bs2—30 to 55 centimeters (11.8 to 21.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed gravelly loam; 60 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-100-150 millimeter slate fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 250-375-600 millimeter slate fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter slate fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; few fine throughout.
    BC—55 to 75 centimeters (21.7 to 29.5 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face gravelly loam; 60 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; high excavation difficulty; 2 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-100-150 millimeter slate fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 250-375-600 millimeter slate fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter slate fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; few fine throughout.
    Cd—75 to 90 centimeters (29.5 to 35.4 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face gravelly loam; 51 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 17 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, nonsticky, slightly plastic; very high excavation difficulty; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 250-375-600 millimeter slate fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter slate fragments and 15 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-100-150 millimeter slate fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; none
    R—90 centimeters (35.4 inches); fragments.; observed in cut. bedrock dip nearly vertical, 90 degrees.