IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Easton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956ME003003
  • User Pedon ID: S1956ME003003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1956ME003003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0410
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32938
  • 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: 46.6332741
  • Std. Longitude: -67.9326477
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Aroostook County, Maine. Lovely Farm, approximately 5 miles southeast of Presque Isle. on road to Easton. Approximately 1/2 mile east of road corner.
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME003—Aroostook
  • MLRA: 146—Aroostook Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME607—Aroostook County, Maine, Northeastern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.S. Hardesty, W. Farley, and E.J. Pedersen.
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Easton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, nonacid Aeric Humaquepts
  • PSC - 10 to 40 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/13/1956
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/13/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    POA

    RANUN

    SOLID

    Poa

    Ranunculus

    Solidago

    bluegrass

    buttercup

    goldenrod

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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

    3

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, gray (N 5/),, dry; silt loam; strong very coarse granular parts to fine granular structure; very friable; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03080. Common earthworms, night crawlers are numerous, and the latter have tunnels penetrating vertically to 24-30 inches by volume of 1-3 inches diameter.
    A2g—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) silt loam; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) mottles; moderate coarse and very coarse platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 fine continuous tubular pores; 7 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed metamorphic-sedimentary fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03081. Under surfaces have pavement of clean pebbles.
    B21g—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 40 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 20 percent gray (N 5/0) silty clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic parts to moderate very coarse angular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine pores; olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) clay films on faces of peds and in pores and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 15 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03082
    B22g—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 40 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 20 percent gray (N 5/0) silt loam; weak angular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine pores; reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) clay films on faces of peds and in pores and reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 15 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03083. Many black and brown soft calcareous shale ghosts, ghosts are clayey when smeared in fingers; this is the horizon of maximum ghosts.
    B23g—81 to 109 centimeters (31.9 to 42.9 inches); 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 40 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 20 percent gray (N 5/0); weak coarse angular blocky parts to weak coarse platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine pores; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay films on faces of peds and in pores and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 35 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter mixed metamorphic-sedimentary fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03084. This is the horizon of maximum coarse skeleton and resembles a stone line.
    C—109 to 137 centimeters (42.9 to 53.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable; 0.0 pores; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A03085. 20-40 percent coarse skeleton of calcareous and noncalcareous dark gray hard shale and fine grained quartzite.