IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hogback
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007ME021009
  • User Pedon ID: S2007ME021009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007ME021009.Lyman
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0128
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19635
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 45.7227783
  • Std. Longitude: -69.1294479
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME021—Piscataquis
  • MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 12-7—Presque Isle, Maine
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME620—Northern Piscataquis and Northern Somerset County Area, Maine
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45069-F2—Wadleigh Mountain, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tony Jenkins/Drew Adam
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, isotic, frigid Lithic Haplohumods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hogback
  • PSC - 5 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/7/2014
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lyman
  • Classificaton Date - 10/4/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: subglacial till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: drumlinoid ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered granite at 36cm with =>200
  • Surface Fragments: 0.30 percent nonflat subangular indurated 380- to 600-millimeter granite, 0.70 percent nonflat subangular indurated 600- to 1500-millimeter granite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/4/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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

    ABBA

    ACSA3

    PIRU

    POTR5

    Abies balsamea

    Acer saccharum

    Picea rubens

    Populus tremuloides

    balsam fir

    sugar maple

    red spruce

    quaking aspen

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    36 -

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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

    lithic contact

    0—8

    5—8

    8—36

    36—

    —5—

    —3—

    —28—

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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

    10

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    400

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    160

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    Oa—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) crushed highly decomposed plant material; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 7.0 very fine to coarse roots between peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter granite fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00799; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) interior gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 33 percent by volume , 48 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter granite fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, pH meter; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 08N00800; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs1—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); variegated 70 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) crushed and 30 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) crushed gravelly silt loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 27 percent by volume , 39 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 2-5-75 millimeter granite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00802; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs2—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); 90 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) crushed and 10 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) crushed gravelly silt loam; 7 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 25 percent by volume , 37 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter granite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00803; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—36 centimeters (14.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.