IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Conant
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S11ME003007.Conant
  • User Pedon ID: S11ME003007.Conant
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11ME003007.Conant
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7794
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50887
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 46.6969444
  • Std. Longitude: -68.1041389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Mapleton, Pease Road; left on Creasy Ridge Road
  • 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
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, frigid Aquic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Conant
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, frigid Aquic Eutrudepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/25/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gravelly lodgment till derived from limestone and sandstone
  • 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: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Cary Mills formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 75-millimeter igneous, unspecified, 5.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 75-millimeter igneous, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • 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 - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 6
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    2BARE

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    Bare Ground

    —

    —

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

    densic material

    strongly coherent

    105 - 200

    - 95 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    densic contact

    densic materials

    0—30

    30—80

    80—200

    80—200

    105—200

    105—200

    —30—

    —50—

    —120—

    —120—

    —95—

    —95—
    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

    6

    —

    —

    167

    —

    120

    979

    —

    100

    4.3

    17.4

    -9.9

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    171175

    NWS Caribou

    US Official
    Ap1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; low vertical penetration resistance; low excavation difficulty; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face silt loam; 12 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; low vertical penetration resistance; low excavation difficulty; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—30 to 50 centimeters (11.8 to 19.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face gravelly loam; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderate vertical penetration resistance; moderate excavation difficulty; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—50 to 80 centimeters (19.7 to 31.5 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior gravelly loam; 12 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; high vertical penetration resistance; low excavation difficulty; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—80 to 105 centimeters (31.5 to 41.3 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) interior gravelly silt loam; 8 percent clay; moderate coarse cloddy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; high vertical penetration resistance; moderate excavation difficulty; 5 percent fine distinct cylindrical weakly coherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 6 percent fine faint cylindrical weakly coherent cemented grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. watertable at 130 cm
    Cdg—105 to 200 centimeters (41.3 to 78.7 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior gravelly silt loam; 25 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, nonplastic; high vertical penetration resistance; high excavation difficulty; 5 percent fine prominent cylindrical weakly coherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 6 percent fine faint cylindrical weakly coherent cemented grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small