IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Washburn
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959ME003004
  • User Pedon ID: S1959ME003004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959ME003004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0419
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32947
  • 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: 46.7832718
  • Std. Longitude: -67.9159775
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Town of Caribou, Aroostook County, Maine. Four-tenths of a mile east of Green Ridge School; 400 feet north of road. Exact location shown on field sheet, photograph AHZ-29-1.
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME003—Aroostook
  • MLRA: 146—Aroostook Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME607—Aroostook County, Maine, Northeastern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John R. Arno, Roy Bither, and Bryce McEwen.
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Washburn
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Haplaquolls
  • PSC - 10 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/27/1959
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/27/1959 (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

    TAHE

    Tabebuia heterophylla

    white cedar

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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

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    Ao—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A03137
    A1—3 to 51 centimeters (1.2 to 20.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; moderate coarse granular structure; friable; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03138. Brown root stains; (Clod samples taken from this horizon.) 5 percent coarse fragments.
    B21g—51 to 56 centimeters (20.1 to 22.0 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) gravelly silt loam; medium distinct mottles; strong thick platy structure; very hard, firm; 0.5 roots; silt coats on rock fragments; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03139. (Clod sample taken from this horizon.)
    B22G—56 to 69 centimeters (22.0 to 27.2 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) gravelly clay loam, silty clay; coarse distinct mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, moderately plastic; clay films on rock fragments and on faces of peds; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03140
    C1g—69 to 82 centimeters (27.2 to 32.3 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) gravelly clay loam, silty clay; medium distinct mottles; massive; very hard, moderately plastic; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03141
    C2g—82 to 94 centimeters (32.3 to 37.0 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) gravelly clay loam; medium distinct mottles; massive; very hard, moderately plastic; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 40A03142