IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wonsqueak
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S09ME003009.Wonsqueak
  • User Pedon ID: S09ME003009.Wonsqueak
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S09ME003009.Wonsqueak
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0313
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 28237
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 46.7125278
  • Std. Longitude: -69.7914167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12
  • Range: 16
  • Location Description: Depot Road 18 ~mile marker Chemin A Ettienne road on Left. ~ 3 miles bog on the left.
  • Map Unit: OA—Wonsqueak and Bucksport soils, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME003—Aroostook
  • MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME621—Western Aroostook County Area, Maine
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46069-F7—Maryl Pond, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mary Jo Kimble, Matt Dorman, and Allison Montgomery
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Dysic, frigid Typic Haplosaprists
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wonsqueak
  • PSC - 0 to 92 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/28/2015
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wonsqueak
  • Classificaton Date - 7/2/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mossy organic material and/or lodgment till
  • Landform: bog
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: dip
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: very frequent flooding for long periods
  • Ponding: frequent ponding for long periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/2/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
  • Current Weather - rain
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    2MOSS

    CHCA2

    KAPO

    LEGR

    PIMA

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    Chamaedaphne calyculata

    Kalmia polifolia

    Ledum groenlandicum

    Picea mariana

    Moss

    leatherleaf

    bog laurel

    bog Labrador tea

    black spruce

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

    densic material

    noncoherent

    92 - 165

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

    fibric soil materials

    sapric soil materials

    densic materials

    redox concentrations

    0—13

    13—92

    92—165

    92—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

    1

    —

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    344

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    225

    905

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    105

    3.1

    16.4

    0.8

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    171472

    Clayton Lake

    U.S. Official
    Oi—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face peat; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0 percent by volume unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, pH meter.; observed in auger, bucket. Roots; common very fine-medium throughout
    Oa1—13 to 71 centimeters (5.1 to 28.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face muck; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter.; observed in auger, bucket. Roots; common very fine and fine throughout, few medium throughout
    Oa2—71 to 92 centimeters (28.0 to 36.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face muck; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0 percent by volume unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter.; observed in auger, bucket. Roots; common very fine and fine throughout, few medium throughout
    Cdg—92 to 165 centimeters (36.2 to 65.0 inches); bluish gray (10B 5/1) broken face silt loam; 45 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 19 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent medium prominent noncoherent cemented light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter.; observed in auger, bucket