IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elliottsville

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: S09ME021001.Elliottsville

User Pedon ID: S09ME021001.Elliottsville

Vegetation Plot ID: S09ME021001.Elliottsville

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - NSSL

Lab Pedon # - 10N0317

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 28241

Print Date: 1/30/2025

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: 46.5350278

Std. Longitude: -68.9985000

Datum: WGS84

Township: 10

Range: 10

Location Description: Jack Mountain road near Island Pond road. New road to the right.

Map Unit: 89D—Monson-Elliottsville complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes, rocky

Country: US—United States

State: Maine

County: ME021—Piscataquis

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: 46068-E8—Mooseleuk Lake, Maine

PEDON

Describers Name: M.J. Kimble, K. Thomson, A. Montgomery

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

Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct

Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name

Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Elliottsville

PSC - 35 to 100 cm.

Classificaton Date - 1/4/2011

Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition

Moisture Class - udic

Moisture Subclass - udic

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Elliottsville

Classificaton Date - 10/16/2009

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: coarse-loamy supraglacial till

Landscape: hills

Landform: hill

Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope

Hill Slope Profile: backslope

Slope Complexity: complex

Slope Shape Across: convex

Slope Shape Down: convex

Drainage Class: well

Flooding: none flooding

Ponding: none ponding

Bedrock: weakly coherent metasedimentary rock, unspecified

Surface Fragments:

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 10/16/2009 (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 -

Current Weather - sunny

Vegetation Plot Plants
Plant Symbol	Scientific Name	National Vernacular Name	Plant Type Group	Canopy Cover %	Vegetation Stata Level
ABBA BEPA FAGR POTR5	Abies balsamea Betula papyrifera Fagus grandifolia Populus tremuloides	balsam fir paper birch American beech quaking aspen	— — — —	— — — —	— — — —

Pedon Restrictions
Kind	Hardness	Restriction Depth L-H	Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
		cm
bedrock, lithic	weakly coherent	105 -	—

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
hemic soil materials ochric epipedon albic horizon albic materials spodic horizon cambic horizon lithic contact	0—10 0—20 10—20 10—20 20—65 65—105 105—	—10— —20— —10— —10— —45— —40— —-

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
20	—	—	341	—	225	905	—	105	3.1	16.4	0.8	—	—	—	—	—	171472	Clayton Lake	U.S. Official

Oe—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face moderately decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent; extremely acid, pH 4.2, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. Roots; many fine-coarse throughout

E—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) broken face silt loam; 26 percent sand; 59 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; extremely acid, pH 4.2, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. Roots; common very fine and fine throughout

Bs1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) crushed silt loam; 42 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. Roots; common very fine and fine throughout

Bs2—41 to 65 centimeters (16.1 to 25.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed silt loam; 64 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. Roots; common very fine and fine throughout

BC—65 to 105 centimeters (25.6 to 41.3 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face loam; 55 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-300 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry

R—105 centimeters (41.3 inches); ; fragments.