IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sebasticook
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: ME-03-06-019-04
  • User Pedon ID: S2003ME019004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0759
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16178
  • 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: 44.9650002
  • Std. Longitude: -69.1411133
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Central exeter, ME
  • 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/ JER
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Dystric Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sebasticook
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Dystric Eutrudepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/5/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till over residuum
  • 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 177cm with 45 to <100 and a strike of 30 degrees
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/5/2005 (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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    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

    3

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    84

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    65

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    Ap—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face loam; 10 percent clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume flat subangular 2-?-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 03N03777, 03N03778; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—33 to 55 centimeters (13.0 to 21.7 inches); 98 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 1 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face and 1 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume flat angular 2-?-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N03779; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Secondary colors represent very friable weathered fine to medium gravels.
    2C1—55 to 86 centimeters (21.7 to 33.9 inches); 40 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) broken face and 30 percent dusky red (2.5YR 3/2) broken face and 15 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 5 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) broken face sandy loam; 3 percent clay; weak thin platy structure; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 3 percent by volume flat angular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 03N03780; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Secondary colors representvery friable weathered fine to medium gravels.
    2C2—86 to 109 centimeters (33.9 to 42.9 inches); 40 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) broken face and 35 percent very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) broken face and 10 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face and 5 percent black (7.5YR 2/1) broken face and 5 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face and 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face sandy loam; 3 percent clay; strong fine platy structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 medium tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume flat angular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N03781; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Secondary colors represent very friable weathered fine to medium gravels.
    R—109 to 119 centimeters (42.9 to 46.9 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small