IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aurelie
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S08ME003008
  • User Pedon ID: S08ME003008.Aurelie
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S08ME003008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0150
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24122
  • 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: 46.7100278
  • Std. Longitude: -68.7455833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12
  • Range: 8
  • Location Description: Maine, Aroostook County, SSA 621, Greenlaw Pond Topo Quad. Take American Reality RD. West from Ashland to mile 21. Take South Branch RD. North 1.8 Miles. Take Carr Pond RD. East 1.8 miles to flagging. Follow flagging North approx. 100M to site.
  • Map Unit: 378B—Daigle-Aurelie association, 0 to 8 percent slopes, very stony
  • 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-F6—Greenlaw Pond, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ARJ
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, active, acid, frigid, shallow Aeric Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Aurelie
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, active, acid, frigid, shallow Aeric Endoaquepts
  • PSC - 10 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/22/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy lodgment till derived from metamorphic rock
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: drainhead complex
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 75-millimeter mixed, 2.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 76- to 300-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/22/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9196-117
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Microrelief Kind: microhigh
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    ABBA

    PIRU

    THOC2

    Abies balsamea

    Picea rubens

    Thuja occidentalis

    balsam fir

    red spruce

    arborvitae

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

    densic material

    moderately coherent

    38 - 165

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

    hemic soil materials

    ochric epipedon

    sapric soil materials

    redox concentrations

    reduced matrix

    aquic conditions

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    densic contact

    densic materials

    0—8

    0—10

    8—10

    10—140

    10—20

    10—38

    20—38

    38—

    38—165

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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

    2

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    27

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    358

    905

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    105

    3.1

    16.4

    0.8

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    171472

    Clayton Lake

    U.S. Official
    Oe—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face moderately decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 20.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Roots; many very fine to medium throughout.
    Oa—8 to 10 centimeters (3.1 to 3.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) broken face highly decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Roots; many very fine and fine throughout.
    Bg—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silt loam; 18 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 34 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent fine prominent cylindrical noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded 2-100-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Roots; many fine throughout and common medium throughout.
    BC—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face silt loam; 17 percent sand; 59 percent silt; 24 percent clay; strong coarse platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 3 percent fine prominent cylindrical noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 3 percent fine distinct reticulate noncoherent cemented gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded 2-100-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Roots; few very fine throughout.
    Cd1—38 to 55 centimeters (15.0 to 21.7 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face channery loam; 29 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 22 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; high excavation difficulty; 2 percent medium prominent platy noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat subrounded 2-100-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Roots; none
    Cd2—55 to 165 centimeters (21.7 to 65.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face channery loam; 30 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 28 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; very high excavation difficulty; 10 percent medium prominent platy noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat subrounded 2-100-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Roots; none