IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Washburn
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959ME003005
  • User Pedon ID: S1959ME003005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959ME003005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0420
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32948
  • 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. One and one-quarter miles south of Green Ridge School. Three tenths of a mile from the road that runs in a north south direction from Green Ridge School. Exact location shown on field sheet, photograph AHZ-36-89.
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME003—Aroostook
  • MLRA: 146—Aroostook Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME607—Aroostook County, Maine, Northeastern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bryce McEwen, John R. Arno and Roy Bither.
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Washburn
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, nonacid Typic Humaquepts
  • PSC - 10 to 40 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

    ABIES

    CHAMA4

    PICEA

    Abies

    Chamaecyparis

    Picea

    fir

    cedar

    spruce

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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 # 40A03143. Dark brown partly decomposed cedar, spruce and fir twigs, ferns, sedges and moss.
    A1—3 to 33 centimeters (1.2 to 13.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; strong coarse granular structure; friable; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03144. Clod sample taken from the horizon.
    B21g—33 to 54 centimeters (13.0 to 21.3 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) gravelly silt loam, silty clay; medium distinct mottles; very hard, firm; 0.5 roots; 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03145. Clod sample taken from this horizon.
    B22g—54 to 92 centimeters (21.3 to 36.2 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) gravelly silty clay; coarse distinct mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to massive; very hard, moderately plastic; clay films on rock fragments; 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03146
    C1g—92 to 110 centimeters (36.2 to 43.3 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) gravelly silty clay loam; medium distinct mottles; massive; very hard, very firm; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 40A03147