IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Conant
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016ME003001
  • User Pedon ID: S2016ME003001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0614
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • 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: 46.7984444
  • Std. Longitude: -68.0294722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a farm field in the town of Caribou
  • Map Unit: CoB—Conant silt loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME003—Aroostook
  • MLRA: 146—Aroostook Area
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-DFX—Dover-Foxcroft, Maine
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME607—Aroostook County, Maine, Northeastern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46068-F1—Presque Isle, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nick Butler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, nonacid, frigid Aeric Epiaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Conant
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, nonacid, frigid Aeric Epiaquepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 32 to 94 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/12/2017
  • Classifier - NRB
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lodgment till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Interbedded Pelite And Limestone member of the Carys Mills Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/17/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Nick Butler
  • Air Photo ID: 9187-49
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    densic material

    strongly coherent

    94 - 165

    - 71 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    densic contact

    0—32

    32—51

    32—165

    94—165

    —32—

    —19—

    —133—

    —71—
    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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    183

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    68

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    Ap—0 to 32 centimeters (0.0 to 12.6 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face, dry; silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-35-76 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N03091; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—32 to 51 centimeters (12.6 to 20.1 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) broken face cobbly silt loam; 16 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; 2 percent fine faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 5 percent fine prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-35-76 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-35-76 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 76-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N03092; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—51 to 94 centimeters (20.1 to 37.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face very cobbly silt loam; 17 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent fine faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 5 percent fine prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-35-76 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-76 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 76-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 76-125-250 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N03093; moist when described; observed in pit, small. The moderately hard para-cobbles in this horizon have two colors: 7.5YR 5/6 and 5YR 3/1
    Cd—94 to 165 centimeters (37.0 to 65.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face very cobbly silt loam; 23 percent clay; massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; semideformable; 5 percent fine faint olive gray (5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 5 percent fine faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 10 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-35-76 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-76 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 76-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 76-125-250 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 17N03094; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. The moderately hard para-gravels described in this horizon have a color of 5YR 3/1; Water observed running in over the top of the Cd horizon into the pit