IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Daigle
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S08ME003010
  • User Pedon ID: S08ME003010.Daigle
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S08ME003010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0152
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24124
  • 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: 46.7344444
  • Std. Longitude: -68.9536111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12
  • Range: 10
  • Location Description: Northwest corner of Farrar Pond quadrangle
  • 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: MGD
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, frigid Aquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Daigle
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, frigid Aquic Haplorthods
  • PSC - 38 to 82 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/7/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lodgment till derived from metamorphic rock
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 250- to 600-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/7/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Microrelief Kind: microhigh
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sleet
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABBA

    BEPA

    Abies balsamea

    Betula papyrifera

    balsam fir

    paper birch

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

    densic material

    strongly coherent

    82 - 165

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

    ochric epipedon

    hemic soil materials

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    reduced matrix

    densic contact

    densic materials

    0—15

    0—13

    13—15

    15—39

    39—118

    39—82

    39—165

    39—165

    39—118

    82—

    82—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

    4

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    —

    398

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    10

    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 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) broken face moderately decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 0 percent by volume unspecified fragments; none odor; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; common very fine to medium throughout, and few medium throughout.
    E—13 to 15 centimeters (5.1 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) broken face gravelly silt loam; 33 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; none odor; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; abrupt broken boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; common very fine and fine throughout, and few medium throughout.
    Bs—15 to 39 centimeters (5.9 to 15.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) crushed gravelly silt loam; 42 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 23 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; none odor; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; common fine throughout and few medium throughout.
    Bg—39 to 66 centimeters (15.4 to 26.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face gravelly loam; 74 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 1 percent coarse faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 1 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; none odor; moderately acid, pH 5.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; none
    BCg—66 to 82 centimeters (26.0 to 32.3 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) broken face very gravelly silt loam; 67 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 8 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 1 percent coarse faint irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (5Y 7/1), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 1 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented 10YR 5/5 (10YR 5/5), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; none odor; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; none
    Cdg—82 to 118 centimeters (32.3 to 46.5 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) broken face very gravelly silt loam; 55 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 11 percent clay; structureless massive; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very high excavation difficulty; 1 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (5Y 7/1), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 1 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-300 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; none odor; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; none
    Cd—118 to 165 centimeters (46.5 to 65.0 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) broken face very gravelly silt loam; 62 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 10 percent clay; structureless massive; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very high excavation difficulty; 1 percent coarse distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (5Y 7/1), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 1 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-300 millimeter unspecified fragments; none odor; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; none