IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Peacham
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2017ME009004
  • User Pedon ID: S2017ME009004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N0169
  • User Project ID: 2017-2018-2019-DFX
  • Project Name: MLRA 143 - Tribal Land Watershed Sampling Project
  • 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: 45.1958056
  • Std. Longitude: -68.0880556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Oqiton Twp. within the Upper Chain Lake Watershed
  • Map Unit: COC—Colonel-Skerry-Brayton association, 0 to 15 percent slopes, very stony
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME009—Hancock
  • MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-STJ—Saint Johnsbury, Vermont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME622—Northern Hancock and Western Washington County Area, Maine
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45068-B1—Duck Lake, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tony Jenkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, nonacid, frigid, shallow Histic Humaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Peacham
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, nonacid, frigid, shallow Histic Humaquepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 63 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/2017
  • Classifier - Nick Butler
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lodgment till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: occasional ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 250- to 600-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/3/2017 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Tony Jenkins
  • Air Photo ID: 9191-10
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    weakly coherent

    84 - 165

    - 81 -

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

    histic epipedon

    redox concentrations

    densic contact

    0—38

    38—84

    84—165

    —38—

    —46—

    —81—
    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

    1

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    109

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    23

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    Oe—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face mucky peat; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few medium roots throughout and few coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N01244; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oa—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) broken face muck; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few medium roots throughout and few coarse roots throughout; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N01245; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bg—38 to 84 centimeters (15.0 to 33.1 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) broken face cobbly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-135-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N01246; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Stone line at the break between Oa and Bg horizon
    Cdg—84 to 165 centimeters (33.1 to 65.0 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) broken face very cobbly sandy loam; massive; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; semideformable; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-135-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method.; moist when described; observed in pit, small