IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Naumburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S09ME003003.Naumburg
  • User Pedon ID: S09ME003003.Naumburg
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S09ME003003.Naumburg
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0307
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 28231
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 46.8690833
  • Std. Longitude: -69.7046944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15
  • Range: 14
  • Location Description: 2 miles in on the Depot Road, first road on left clear to the end on the right.
  • Map Unit: 9B—Naumburg-Croghan association, 0 to 8 percent slopes
  • 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: 46069-G6—Houlton Pond, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nicholas Butler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, frigid Typic Endoaquods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Naumburg
  • PSC - 30 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/18/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Naumburg
  • Classificaton Date - 7/17/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - tree
  • Forest Understory Veg. Type - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Hydric: yes


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: very rare flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/17/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • 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
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABBA

    BEPA

    PIRU

    Abies balsamea

    Betula papyrifera

    Picea rubens

    balsam fir

    paper birch

    red spruce

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

    sapric soil materials

    ochric epipedon

    albic materials

    albic horizon

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    spodic horizon

    0—5

    0—8

    5—8

    5—8

    8—165

    8—100

    8—100

    8—26

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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

    3

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    275

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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
    Oa—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) highly decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.6, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Roots; few very fine and fine throughout
    E—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) fine sandy loam; 74 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.9; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Roots; common very fine and fine throughout
    Bs1—8 to 14 centimeters (3.1 to 5.5 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) loamy sand; 81 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2 percent prominent noncoherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, throughout and 5 percent faint noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Roots; common very fine and fine throughout
    Bs2—14 to 26 centimeters (5.5 to 10.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sand; 88 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 2 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent fine distinct noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron throughout and 15 percent fine prominent noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Roots; common very fine and fine throughout
    BC—26 to 53 centimeters (10.2 to 20.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) fine sand; 89 percent sand; 9 percent silt; 2 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent fine prominent noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 40 percent fine faint noncoherent cemented grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Roots; few very fine and fine throughout
    C1—53 to 100 centimeters (20.9 to 39.4 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) fine sand; 87 percent sand; 11 percent silt; 2 percent clay; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent fine distinct noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron throughout and 15 percent fine distinct noncoherent cemented yellow (10YR 7/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—100 to 136 centimeters (39.4 to 53.5 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine sand; 94 percent sand; 4 percent silt; 2 percent clay; structureless single grain; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cg—136 to 165 centimeters (53.5 to 65.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) fine sand; 98 percent sand; 0 percent silt; 2 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5.; moist when described; observed in pit, small