IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marlow
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977ME027002
  • User Pedon ID: S1977ME027002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1977ME027002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4201
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40388
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 44.5391159
  • Std. Longitude: -68.9365921
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: town of Searsport; 1.2 miles east of Mt. Ephraim road on Nickels Road and 900 feet north of Nickels Road
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME027—Waldo
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME027—Waldo County, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Yeck, R. Joslin, G. Hedstrom, D. Nelson, and D. Popp
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, frigid Oxyaquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marlow
  • PSC - 33 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/17/2014
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MARLOW
  • Classificaton Date - 7/28/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/28/1977 (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

    FAGUS

    Fagus

    beech

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    74 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    densic contact

    0—18

    8—18

    18—33

    74—

    —18—

    —7—

    —15—

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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

    14

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    129

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    106

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    Oe—0 to 0 centimeters (0.0 to 0.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2) moderately decomposed plant material; strong fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 21.0 coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A32064
    E—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; massive; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 6 percent by volume , 8 percent by weight 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 40A32065
    Bs1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 11 percent by volume , 16 percent by weight 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A32066
    Bs2—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 14 percent by volume , 22 percent by weight 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A32067
    BC—41 to 74 centimeters (16.1 to 29.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; massive; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 21 percent by volume , 31 percent by weight 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A32068
    Cd1—74 to 89 centimeters (29.1 to 35.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) gravelly silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; very firm; 20 percent by volume , 30 percent by weight 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A32069
    Cd2—89 to 150 centimeters (35.0 to 59.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) gravelly silt loam; strong medium platy, and strong thick platy structure; very firm; dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds; 27 percent by volume , 41 percent by weight 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A32070