IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sebasticook
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: ME-04-07-019-02
  • User Pedon ID: S2004ME019002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0221
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17660
  • 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: 44.8805542
  • Std. Longitude: -69.2930527
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Newport
  • 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44069-H3—Corinna, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DET/WDH/THB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Dystric Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sebasticook
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Dystric Eutrudepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/29/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lodgement till
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent phyllite at 109cm with 45 to <100
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter 5.00 percent flat 2- to 150-millimeter 1.00 percent nonflat 75- to 250-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/29/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9209-25
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 27
    • 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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    106

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    90

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    140

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots; ; 5 percent by volume flat metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N01308, 05N01309; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bw1—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silt loam; 6 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N01310; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bw2—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.2 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N01311; moist when described; observed in trench
    BC1—51 to 81 centimeters (20.1 to 31.9 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 39 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face and 3 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face and 2 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face and 2 percent black (2.5Y 2.5/1) broken face and 2 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face and 2 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) broken face silt loam; 10 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume flat subangular weakly coherent cemented metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N01312; moist when described; observed in trench. Secondary colors represent very friable weathered fine to medium gravels.
    BC2—81 to 109 centimeters (31.9 to 42.9 inches); 55 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) broken face and 40 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 2 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) broken face and 2 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face and 1 percent black (7.5YR 2.5/1) broken face silt loam; 13 percent clay; strong very fine subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N01313; moist when described; observed in trench. Secondary colors represent very friable weathered fine gravels.
    R—109 to 119 centimeters (42.9 to 46.9 inches); fragments.; observed in trench