IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mapleton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S11ME003013.Mapleton
  • User Pedon ID: S11ME003013.Mapleton
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11ME003013.Mapleton
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7799
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50892
  • Print Date: 1/29/2025

    • 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: 46.6710833
  • Std. Longitude: -67.8569444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Route 1A North of the Easton Center 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: 46067-F7—Easton Center, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Matt Dorman, Tony Jenkins, Greg granger, Mary Jo Kimble
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, frigid Dystric 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 - Mapleton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, frigid Dystric Eutrudepts
  • PSC - 25 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/27/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy lodgment till derived from limestone and sandstone
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: on a slope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 75-millimeter igneous, unspecified, 10.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 75-millimeter igneous, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/27/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Kind: microhigh
  • 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
    • 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

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

    bedrock, densic

    indurated

    80 - 105

    - 25 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—27

    27—80

    80—105

    —27—

    —53—

    —25—
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    10/27/2011

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    —

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    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

    4

    —

    —

    261

    —

    90

    979

    —

    125

    4.3

    17.4

    -9.9

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    171175

    NWS Caribou

    US Official
    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face, dry; gravelly silt loam; 16 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low vertical penetration resistance; low excavation difficulty; 3 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; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—10 to 27 centimeters (3.9 to 10.6 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; gravelly silt loam; 16 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low vertical penetration resistance; low 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 5.6, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bw—27 to 60 centimeters (10.6 to 23.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior gravelly silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate vertical penetration resistance; moderate excavation difficulty; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    BC—60 to 80 centimeters (23.6 to 31.5 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior very channery loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate vertical penetration resistance; moderate excavation difficulty; 2 percent fine prominent irregular gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron with clear boundaries throughout and 2 percent fine distinct irregular dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume flat very angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter limestone-sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    R—80 to 105 centimeters (31.5 to 41.3 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small