IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wassookeag

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: S11ME003004.Wassookeag

User Pedon ID: S11ME003004.Conant

Vegetation Plot ID: S11ME003004.Wassookeag

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - NSSL

Lab Pedon # - 12N7792

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50885

Print Date: 11/27/2024

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: 46.6996944

Std. Longitude: -68.1075556

Datum: WGS84

Location Description: Mapleton, Pease Road; left on Creasy Ridge Road

Map Unit: CoC—Conant silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes

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: 46068-F1—Presque Isle, Maine

PEDON

Describers Name: Matt Dorman, Mary Jo Kimble, Greg Granger

Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, isotic, frigid Typic Dystrudepts

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series

Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Wassookeag

Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, isotic, frigid Typic Dystrudepts

PSC - 25 to 100 cm.

Classificaton Date - 10/25/2011

Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition

Moisture Class - udic

Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: gravelly till derived from limestone and shale

Landscape: till plain

Landform: ridge

Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope

Hill Slope Profile: backslope

Slope Position: on a slope

Slope Complexity: simple

Slope Shape Across: convex

Slope Shape Down: convex

Drainage Class: moderately well

Bedrock: at 140cm

Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 75-millimeter limestone-shale, 5.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 75-millimeter limestone-shale,

Benchmark Soil?: yes

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 10/25/2011 (actual site observation date)

Microrelief Kind: microlow

Surface Cover Properties:

Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover

Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Drained? - no

Bedded Soil? - no

Forest Plantation? - no

Current Weather - partly cloudy

Vegetation Plot Plants
Plant Symbol	Scientific Name	National Vernacular Name	Plant Type Group	Canopy Cover %	Vegetation Stata Level
2GP FESTU PLANT RANUN TARAX TRRE3 UNKNOWN	— Festuca Plantago Ranunculus Taraxacum Trifolium repens unknown scientific name	Grass, perennial fescue plantain buttercup dandelion white clover unknown national vernacular name	— — — — — — —	— — — — — — —	— — — — — — —

Pedon Restrictions
Kind	Hardness	Restriction Depth L-H	Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
		cm
bedrock, paralithic bedrock, lithic	noncoherent strongly coherent	120 - 140 140 - 165	- 20 - - 25 -

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
ochric epipedon cambic horizon oxic horizon paralithic materials paralithic contact lithic contact	0—18 18—60 60—75 120—140 120—140 140—165	—18— —42— —15— —20— —20— —25—

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	—	—	192	—	130	979	—	100	4.3	17.4	-9.9	—	—	—	—	—	171175	NWS Caribou	US Official

Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) crushed silt loam; 14 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low vertical penetration resistance; low excavation difficulty; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter limestone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Bw1—18 to 50 centimeters (7.1 to 19.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed silt loam; 12 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low vertical penetration resistance; low excavation difficulty; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter limestone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Bw2—50 to 60 centimeters (19.7 to 23.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate vertical penetration resistance; low excavation difficulty; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter limestone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small

BC—60 to 75 centimeters (23.6 to 29.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior gravelly loam; 18 percent clay; mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate vertical penetration resistance; moderate excavation difficulty; 1 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of reduced iron with diffuse boundaries between peds and 3 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries between peds; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter limestone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; diffuse smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small

C1—75 to 100 centimeters (29.5 to 39.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior gravelly loam; 18 percent clay; 15 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) fine and coarse distinct irregular mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate vertical penetration resistance; high excavation difficulty; 4 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented masses of reduced iron with diffuse boundaries between peds and 6 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries between peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter limestone-shale fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter limestone-shale fragments and 15 percent by volume flat angular weakly cemented cemented 75-125-250 millimeter limestone-sandstone fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small

C2—100 to 120 centimeters (39.4 to 47.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior gravelly loam; 18 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low vertical penetration resistance; moderate excavation difficulty; 4 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented masses of reduced iron with diffuse boundaries between peds and 6 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries between peds; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter limestone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small

2Cr—120 to 140 centimeters (47.2 to 55.1 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small

2R—140 to 165 centimeters (55.1 to 65.0 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small