IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Caribou
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S10ME003001.Caribou
  • User Pedon ID: S10ME003001.Caribou
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N8701
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50915
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 46.5630556
  • Std. Longitude: -67.8859722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: RaCA sampled site pit #2
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME003—Aroostook
  • MLRA: 146—Aroostook Area
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 12-7—Presque Isle, Maine
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME607—Aroostook County, Maine, Northeastern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46067-E8—Westfield, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mary Jo Kimble
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Caribou
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    spodic horizon

    cambic horizon

    0—33

    33—53

    53—69

    —-33

    —-20

    —-16
    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

    10

    —

    —

    214

    —

    —

    —

    100

    3.1

    16.4

    0.8

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    171472

    Clayton Lake

    US Official
    Ap—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-300 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; diffuse wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 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; diffuse wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—69 to 83 centimeters (27.2 to 32.7 inches); 2.5Y 4/6 (2.5Y 4/6) silt loam; 24 percent clay; structureless massive; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-300 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; diffuse wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—83 to 120 centimeters (32.7 to 47.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silt loam; 26 percent clay; structureless massive; loose, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 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.; moist when described; observed in pit, small