IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sheepscot
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009ME003007
  • User Pedon ID: S2009ME003007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S09ME003007.Sheepscot
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0311
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 28235
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 46.8086389
  • Std. Longitude: -69.5206111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13
  • Range: 14
  • Location Description: Gravel pit down the road (west of) Maibec logging camp.
  • Map Unit: 18B—Masardis-Sheepscot complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME003—Aroostook
  • MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-STJ—Saint Johnsbury, Vermont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME621—Western Aroostook County Area, Maine
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46069-G5—Seven Islands, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Allison Montgomery and Nick Butler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, isotic, frigid Aquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sheepscot
  • PSC - 31 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/2024
  • Classifier - Josh Dera
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - thirteenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sheepscot
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - tree
  • Forest Understory Veg. Type - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: outwash
  • Landscape: outwash plain
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Microfeature: terracette
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: riser
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: very rare flooding
  • Ponding: rare ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • 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
  • Yield Study ID -
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABBA

    BEPA

    PIRU

    POTR5

    Abies balsamea

    Betula papyrifera

    Picea rubens

    Populus tremuloides

    balsam fir

    paper birch

    red spruce

    quaking aspen

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

    ochric epipedon

    sapric soil materials

    albic horizon

    albic materials

    spodic horizon

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    aquic conditions

    endosaturation

    0—13

    0—6

    6—13

    6—13

    13—54

    54—165

    54—60

    54—60

    60—165

    60—165

    —13—

    —6—

    —7—

    —7—

    —41—

    —111—

    —6—

    —6—

    —105—

    —105—
    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

    5

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    —

    85.7

    —

    140

    905

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    105

    3.1

    16.4

    0.8

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    171472

    Clayton Lake

    U.S. Official
    Oa—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face highly decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. Roots; many very fine and fine throught, few medium and coarse throughout
    E—6 to 13 centimeters (2.4 to 5.1 inches); light gray (7.5YR 7/1) broken face loam; 46 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; extremely acid, pH 4.0, pH meter; abrupt broken boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. Roots; common fine throughout
    Bs1—13 to 31 centimeters (5.1 to 12.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) crushed very gravelly loamy coarse sand; 79 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bs2—31 to 54 centimeters (12.2 to 21.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed very gravelly coarse sand; 94 percent sand; 4 percent silt; 2 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 45 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    BC—54 to 60 centimeters (21.3 to 23.6 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face extremely gravelly coarse sand; 87 percent sand; 9 percent silt; 3 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, masses of reduced iron throughout and 15 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 2 percent fine faint iron masses throughout; 20 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 75-125-300 millimeter mixed fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    C1—60 to 90 centimeters (23.6 to 35.4 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face extremely gravelly coarse sand; 90 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 2 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 75-125-300 millimeter mixed fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    C2—90 to 165 centimeters (35.4 to 65.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) broken face very gravelly coarse sand; 96 percent sand; 3 percent silt; 2 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 75-125-300 millimeter mixed fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry