IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hogback
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000ME017001
  • User Pedon ID: S2000ME017001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000ME017001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01P0068
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 12959
  • 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: 44.6494446
  • Std. Longitude: -71.0013885
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME017—Oxford
  • MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME613—Oxford County Area, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gary Hedstrom, Wayne Hoar, M.J. Kimble, Joyce Scheyer
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hogback
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, isotic Lithic Haplohumods
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/2000
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: knoll
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 175-14
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    ACPE

    CHIMA

    PICEA

    Abies

    Acer pensylvanicum

    Chimaphila

    Picea

    fir

    striped maple

    prince's pine

    spruce

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

    albic horizon

    0—0

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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

    15

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    1409

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    300

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    Oa—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); black (7.5YR 2/1) Error; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P00331
    E—4 to 9 centimeters (1.6 to 3.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) very fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P00332
    Bhs—9 to 14 centimeters (3.5 to 5.5 inches); black (2.5Y 2/1) very fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P00333
    Bs1—14 to 32 centimeters (5.5 to 12.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very coarse roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 1 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P00334
    Bs2—32 to 47 centimeters (12.6 to 18.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) fine sandy loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 very coarse roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P00335
    R—47 centimeters (18.5 inches); fragments.