IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Burnham
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S08ME003009
  • User Pedon ID: S08ME003009.Aurelie
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S08ME003009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0151
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24123
  • 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: 46.7475278
  • Std. Longitude: -68.9908333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12
  • Range: 10
  • Location Description: 20 Mile Brook Road on the Farrar Pond Quad.
  • Map Unit: 374B—Daigle-Aurelie-Ragmuff association, 0 to 8 percent slopes, rocky
  • 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-F8—Farrar Pond, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: AMM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, subactive, nonacid, frigid, shallow Histic Humaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Burnham
  • PSC - 48 to 72 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/3/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Aurelie
  • Classificaton Date - 11/7/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy lodgment till derived from metamorphic rock
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: drainageway
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 250- to 600-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/7/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Kind: microlow
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and 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

    BEAL2

    BEPA

    PIMA

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Betula papyrifera

    Picea mariana

    yellow birch

    paper birch

    black spruce

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

    densic material

    indurated

    72 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    histic epipedon

    aquic conditions

    reduced matrix

    densic materials

    0—33

    0—33

    22—72

    23—61

    72—

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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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    398

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    45

    905

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    105

    3.1

    16.4

    0.8

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    171472

    Clayton Lake

    U.S. Official
    Oa1—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 2.5/2) broken face highly decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; few coarse throughout, common fine and very fine throughout.
    Oa2—16 to 23 centimeters (6.3 to 9.1 inches); black (5YR 2.5/1) broken face highly decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; few fine throughout
    Eg—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) broken face silt loam; 56 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; few fine throughout.
    Bg—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) broken face very gravelly silt loam; 41 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 18 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent coarse faint light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent coarse distinct pale yellow (5Y 7/3), moist, iron depletions; 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; none
    Bw—61 to 72 centimeters (24.0 to 28.3 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) broken face very gravelly silt loam; 40 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 16 percent clay; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent coarse prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent coarse distinct light gray (2.5Y 7/1), moist, iron depletions; 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-30-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; none
    Cd1—72 to 120 centimeters (28.3 to 47.2 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) broken face very gravelly silty clay loam; 35 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 20 percent clay; structureless massive; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent fine prominent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent coarse faint light gray (5Y 7/1), moist, iron depletions; 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; none
    Cd2—120 to 165 centimeters (47.2 to 65.0 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) broken face very gravelly silty clay loam; 35 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 22 percent clay; structureless massive; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; none