IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Easton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956ME003002
  • User Pedon ID: S1956ME003002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0409
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32937
  • 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: 46.6638298
  • Std. Longitude: -67.9595871
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Aroostook County, Maine. T. Thompson Farm approximately 3 miles east of Presque Isle and 1/2 mile south of Academy Street extension at the end of farm road about 150 feet from the woods.
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME003—Aroostook
  • MLRA: 146—Aroostook Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME607—Aroostook County, Maine, Northeastern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Farley, J.S. Hardesty, E.J. Pedersen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, nonacid, frigid Aeric Haplaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Easton
  • PSC - 10 to 40 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Easton
  • Classificaton Date - 7/12/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/12/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 roots; 75-162-250 millimeter quartzite fragments and 15 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03074. The numerous 2 to 4 inch clods of A2g are massive and not yet mixed by cultivation.
    A2g—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) silt loam; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) fine faint and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) mottles; moderate and strong medium platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; 21.0 fine pores; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03075. Many horizontal clay coated pore channels visible on surface of plates but none elsewhere; many fine nearly vertical cylindrical continuous pores in the peds, these open on the upper surface of the plates and the openings and channels leading to the openings are clay glazed; many fine (1mm.) strong brown spherical concretions observed when peds are cut but not when crushed.
    B21g—38 to 69 centimeters (15.0 to 27.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) crushed gravelly silty clay loam; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) mottles; weak coarse and very coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; fine pores; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist,; 15 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume angular 75-162-250 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03076. Coarse fragments are yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) firm leached shale which is fairly easily broken with the fingers or cut with a knife; non or very weakly calcareous.
    B22g—69 to 97 centimeters (27.2 to 38.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) crushed gravelly silty clay loam; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) mottles; weak coarse and very coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; fine pores; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist,; 15 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume angular 75-162-250 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A03077. Much like horizon above but massive and with few or no ped faces; perhaps more coarse skeleton than in horizon above, calcareous. A vein of water was hit at about 36 inches and water dropped into the hole rapidly at first and later stopped. In contrast with the C horizon the B22g and B23g horizons are rather wet and soupy; gradual boundary.
    B23g—97 to 127 centimeters (38.2 to 50.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) crushed gravelly silty clay loam; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) mottles; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; fine pores; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist,; 15 percent by volume angular 75-162-250 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03078. Much like the horizon above.
    C1—127 to 147 centimeters (50.0 to 57.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) gravelly silty clay loam; weak and moderate medium platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 12 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 12 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 12 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments. Lab sample # 40A03079