IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ragmuff
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011ME019008
  • User Pedon ID: S2011ME019008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11ME019008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7816
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50909
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 44.9872778
  • Std. Longitude: -68.8877222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Site is located on University of Maine property on sheet 9195-195 in Hudson, ME
  • Map Unit: EXC—Elliottsville-Monson complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes, rocky
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME019—Penobscot
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-DFX—Dover-Foxcroft, Maine
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME612—Penobscot County, Maine, Southern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44068-H8—Kenduskeag, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nick Butler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Aquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ragmuff
  • PSC - 32 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/8/2016
  • Classifier - SSOL
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ragmuff
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Aquic Haplorthods
  • PSC - 32 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lodgment till
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent at 71cm
  • Surface Fragments: 0.10 percent nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 250- to 600-millimeter 0.10 percent nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 250- to 600-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/15/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9195-195
  • 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
  • Current Weather - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 16
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACSA3

    PIST

    ABBA

    ACRU

    Acer saccharum

    Pinus strobus

    Abies balsamea

    Acer rubrum

    sugar maple

    eastern white pine

    balsam fir

    red maple

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

    densic material

    bedrock, lithic

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    61 - 71

    71 - 165

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

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    redox concentrations

    densic contact

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithic contact

    7—12

    12—44

    44—71

    61—71

    61—71

    71—165

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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

    5

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    67

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    270

    1035

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    130

    6

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face slightly decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oe—3 to 7 centimeters (1.2 to 2.8 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) broken face moderately decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—7 to 12 centimeters (2.8 to 4.7 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) broken face channery silt loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume flat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-50-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs1—12 to 30 centimeters (4.7 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed channery silt loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 76-135-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 12 percent by volume flat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-50-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs2—30 to 44 centimeters (11.8 to 17.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) crushed channery loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume flat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-50-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—44 to 61 centimeters (17.3 to 24.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face channery fine sandy loam; 5 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 1 percent fine faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 76-135-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume flat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-50-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; clear broken boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. No redox depletions observed within horizon
    Cd—61 to 71 centimeters (24.0 to 28.0 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) broken face channery silt loam; 6 percent clay; massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, and masses of oxidized iron throughout and 1 percent fine faint light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 3 percent fine prominent brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 76-135-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume flat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-50-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Horizon is firm to dig, but friable once removed with knife
    R—71 to 165 centimeters (28.0 to 65.0 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small. Bedrock depth varies within the pit (ranges from 56cm - 71cm; therefore, the Cd is discontinuous and only seen in the deeper portion of the pit