IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Caribou
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S11ME003030.Caribou
  • User Pedon ID: S11ME003030.Caribou
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7811
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50904
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 46.1446944
  • Std. Longitude: -67.9305000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: Ludlow
  • Location Description: Near I-95 on the Ludlow Rd and Morrison Rd intersection in Ludlow. Possible waste storage site location.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME003—Aroostook
  • MLRA: 146—Aroostook Area
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46067-B8—Twin Brook, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MaryJo Kimble, Greg Granger, Matt Dorman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Typic 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 - Caribou
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 25 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/16/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/16/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    densic materials

    0—20

    20—65

    65—200

    65—200

    —20—

    —45—

    —135—

    —135—
    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

    12

    —

    —

    170

    —

    60

    979

    —

    125

    4.3

    14.4

    -9.9

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    171175

    NWS Caribou

    US Official
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat angular indurated 20-100-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Roots: Common Very Fine and Few Fine Throughout
    Bw—20 to 40 centimeters (7.9 to 15.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) gravelly loam; 5 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) medium prominent platy mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-100-150 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: Few Very Fine Throughout
    BC—40 to 65 centimeters (15.7 to 25.6 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) gravelly loam; 5 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) medium prominent platy mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 1 percent fine brown (7.5YR 5/4) root sheaths; 10 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-100-150 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: Few Very Fine Throughout
    Cd—65 to 200 centimeters (25.6 to 78.7 inches); olive (5Y 4/4) gravelly parachannery loam; 18 percent clay; 10 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) medium prominent platy mottles; structureless massive; very firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume flat angular indurated 150-250-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-100-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small