IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Penobscot
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: ME-03-06-019-03
  • User Pedon ID: S2003ME019003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0758
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16177
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • 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: 44.9616661
  • Std. Longitude: -69.1638870
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Central Exeter, Maine
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME019—Penobscot
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME612—Penobscot County, Maine, Southern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DET/ CCD
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Dystric Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Penobscot
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Dystric Eutrudepts
  • PSC - 25 to 57 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/4/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: ablation till over residuum weathered from metasedimentary rock
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent phyllite at 145cm with 10 to <45 and a strike of 70 degrees and a dip of 70 to 70 degrees
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/4/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9200-112
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    57 -

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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

    6

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    91

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    205

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    140

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) rubbed silt loam; 7 percent clay; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N03769; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); variegated 60 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face and 35 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 5 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face silt loam; 7 percent clay; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 03N03770; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Secondary colors represent very friable weathered fine to medium gravels
    2Cr—30 to 57 centimeters (11.8 to 22.4 inches); variegated 45 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) broken face and 35 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 10 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face and 5 percent black (7.5YR 2.5/1) broken face and 5 percent dark gray (5Y 4/1) broken face silt; 3 percent clay; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 03N03771; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—57 to 67 centimeters (22.4 to 26.4 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small