IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Conant
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S11ME003021.Conant
  • User Pedon ID: S11ME003021.Conant
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11ME003021.Conant
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7805
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50898
  • 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: 46.6317500
  • Std. Longitude: -67.8055556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Route1 off the Graham Rd.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME003—Aroostook
  • MLRA: 146—Aroostook Area
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • 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
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Aquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Conant
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Aquic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 25 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: on a slope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/15/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    2GLA

    COSES

    PIRU

    —

    Cornus sericea ssp. sericea

    Picea rubens

    Grasslike, annual

    redosier dogwood

    red spruce

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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

    densic material

    —

    80 - 200

    - 120 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    densic materials

    densic contact

    0—20

    20—80

    80—200

    80—200

    —20—

    —60—

    —120—

    —120—
    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

    7

    —

    —

    206

    —

    120

    979

    —

    125

    4.3

    17.4

    -9.9

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    171175

    NWS Caribou

    US Official
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) silt loam; 14 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Roots: Many Very Fine & Coarse Throughout
    Bw—20 to 50 centimeters (7.9 to 19.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly loam; 12 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume flat very angular strongly coherent cemented 2-100-125 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Roots: Common Very Fine & Medium Throughout
    BC—50 to 80 centimeters (19.7 to 31.5 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) gravelly sandy loam; 10 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3 percent fine distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron throughout and 5 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Roots: Few Very Fine & Medium Throughout
    Cd1—80 to 120 centimeters (31.5 to 47.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) gravelly loam; structureless massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout and 5 percent fine distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) masses of reduced iron throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cd2—120 to 200 centimeters (47.2 to 78.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) cobbly gravelly loam; structureless massive; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume flat very angular strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter unspecified fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small