IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wassookeag
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S11ME003012.Wassookeag
  • User Pedon ID: S11ME003012.Wassookeag
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11ME003012.Wassookeag
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7798
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50891
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 46.7066389
  • Std. Longitude: -67.9819167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Reach road near transmission lines.
  • 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-F8—Easton, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Matt Dorman, Tony Jenkins, Greg Granger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, frigid Oxyaquic 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 - Wassookeag
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, frigid Oxyaquic Eutrudepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/16/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - tree
  • Forest Understory Veg. Type - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy 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: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 250- to 600-millimeter igneous, unspecified, 1.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 250- to 600-millimeter igneous, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/16/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Kind: microdepression
  • 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
  • Current Weather - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 10
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACSA3

    CORNU

    PICEA

    Acer saccharum

    Cornus

    Picea

    sugar maple

    dogwood

    spruce

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly cemented

    152 - 177

    - 25 -

    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

    lithic contact

    0—20

    39—95

    95—152

    95—152

    152—177

    —20—

    —56—

    —57—

    —57—

    —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

    5

    —

    —

    185

    —

    30

    979

    —

    125

    4.3

    17.4

    -9.9

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    171175

    NWS Caribou

    US Official
    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face gravelly loam; 18 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low vertical penetration resistance; low excavation difficulty; 10 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; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—20 to 39 centimeters (7.9 to 15.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior cobbly loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate vertical penetration resistance; low excavation difficulty; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—39 to 95 centimeters (15.4 to 37.4 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior cobbly loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate vertical penetration resistance; moderate excavation difficulty; 20 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; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—95 to 152 centimeters (37.4 to 59.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior very gravelly sandy loam; 18 percent clay; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate vertical penetration resistance; moderate excavation difficulty; 5 percent fine distinct irregular gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron with clear boundaries throughout and 20 percent fine faint irregular brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries throughout; 2 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 250-425-600 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-100-150 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; abrupt broken boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—152 to 177 centimeters (59.8 to 69.7 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small