IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chesuncook

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: S08ME025002

User Pedon ID: S08ME025002.Perham

Vegetation Plot ID: S08ME025002

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - SSL

Lab Pedon # - 09N0391

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24139

Print Date: 3/2/2025

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: 46.0421667

Std. Longitude: -70.0561389

Datum: WGS84

Township: 5

Range: 18

Location Description: Goldenroad to Truesdale Pond road

Map Unit: 377C—Daigle-Perham association, 3 to 15 percent slopes, very stony

Country: US—United States

State: Maine

County: ME025—Somerset

MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains

Regional Office: NE—Northeast

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-A1—Norris Brook, Maine

PEDON

Describers Name: R. E. EVON / A.B. JENKINS

Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Aquic Haplorthods

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: TUD pedon

Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Chesuncook

PSC - 30 to 65 cm.

Classificaton Date - 1/5/2012

Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition

Moisture Class - udic

Moisture Subclass - udic

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - PERHAM

Classificaton Date - 9/13/2007

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till derived from metasiltstone

Landscape: hills

Landform: drainageway

Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope

Hill Slope Profile: footslope

Slope Complexity: simple

Slope Shape Across: linear

Slope Shape Down: linear

Drainage Class: moderately well

Flooding: none flooding

Ponding: none ponding

Surface Fragments: 3.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 250- to 600-millimeter mixed,

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 9/13/2007 (actual site observation date)

Air Photo ID: 9214-18

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
ACRU ACSA3 BEAL2 BEPA FAGR PIRU	Acer rubrum Acer saccharum Betula alleghaniensis Betula papyrifera Fagus grandifolia Picea rubens	red maple sugar maple yellow birch paper birch American beech red spruce	— — — — — —	— — — — — —	— — — — — —

Pedon Restrictions
Kind	Hardness	Restriction Depth L-H	Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
		cm
densic material	very strongly coherent	65 -	—

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
ochric epipedon sapric soil materials albic materials albic horizon spodic horizon cambic horizon aquic conditions redox depletions with chroma 2 or less redox concentrations densic materials densic contact	0—9 0—5 5—9 5—9 9—50 50—65 50—165 50—65 50—165 65—165 65—	—- —- —- —- —- —15— —- —- —- —- —-

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
16	—	—	402	—	240	905	—	105	3.1	16.4	0.8	—	—	—	—	—	171472	Clayton Lkae	US Official

Oa—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) crushed highly decomposed plant material; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; low excavation difficulty; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut

E—5 to 9 centimeters (2.0 to 3.5 inches); light gray (7.5YR 7/1) interior loam; 33 percent sand; 58 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 5 percent by volume flat very strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; abrupt broken boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. MANY VERY FINE - MEDIUM ROOTS

Bhs—9 to 12 centimeters (3.5 to 4.7 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) crushed loam; 30 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 10 percent by volume flat very strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, pH meter; clear broken boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. COMMON VERY FINE AND FINE ROOTS, AND FEW MEDIUM ROOTS

Bs—12 to 50 centimeters (4.7 to 19.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) crushed loam; 34 percent sand; 54 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume flat very strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; clear irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. COMMON VERY FINE AND FINE ROOTS, AND FEW MEDIUM ROOTS

BC—50 to 65 centimeters (19.7 to 25.6 inches); 94 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) interior loam; 39 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak very thin platy structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 1 percent faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 5 percent fine faint reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume flat very strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. COMMON VERY FINE AND FINE ROOTS, AND FEW MEDIUM AND COARSE ROOTS

Cd—65 to 120 centimeters (25.6 to 47.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face channery silt loam; 33 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak thick platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; high excavation difficulty; fine distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions and fine faint light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 20 percent by volume flat very strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. REDOXIMORPHIC CONCENTRATIONS AND DEPLETIONS ON TOPS OF BRITTLE PLATES; FEW VERY FINE - MEDIUM ROOTS

Cdg—120 to 165 centimeters (47.2 to 65.0 inches); N 5/1 (N 5/1) broken face channery silty clay loam; 28 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak thick platy structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; high excavation difficulty; fine distinct light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron and fine faint gray (10YR 6/1), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 20 percent by volume flat very strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in cut. REDOXIMORPHIC CONCENTRATIONS LOCATED ON TOPS OF BRITTLE PLATES