IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hermon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2017ME009005
  • User Pedon ID: S2017ME009005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N0170
  • User Project ID: 2017-2018-2019-DFX
  • Project Name: MLRA 143 - Tribal Land Watershed Sampling Project
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 45.1955000
  • Std. Longitude: -68.0889167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Oqiton Twp. within the Upper Chain Lake Watershed
  • Map Unit: BPA—Brayton-Peacham association, 0 to 8 percent slopes, extremely 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: Sandy-skeletal, isotic, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • 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 - Hermon
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, isotic, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 36 to 111 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/2017
  • Classifier - Nick Butler
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: supraglacial till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 3.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 250- to 600-millimeter granite, 7.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 600- to 2400-millimeter granite,
  • 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    0—18

    11—19

    19—60

    —18—

    —8—

    —41—
    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

    13

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    111

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    23

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face slightly decomposed plant material; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and many coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N01247; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oe—3 to 11 centimeters (1.2 to 4.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face moderately decomposed plant material; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and many coarse roots throughout; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N01248; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Some pockets of Oa but too irregular to sample or describe
    E—11 to 19 centimeters (4.3 to 7.5 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) broken face gravelly very fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and many coarse roots throughout; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N01249; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs1—19 to 38 centimeters (7.5 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed very gravelly loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and few coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-135-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 35 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N01250; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Has an intermittent 2cm Bhs at the top that is too irregular and sparse to describe/sample
    Bs2—38 to 60 centimeters (15.0 to 23.6 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) crushed very gravelly coarse sand; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-135-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N01251; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—60 to 85 centimeters (23.6 to 33.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face extremely gravelly coarse sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few medium roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-135-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 55 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N01252; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—85 to 165 centimeters (33.5 to 65.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face extremely gravelly coarse sand; massive; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; few fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-135-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 55 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Horizon has 20% loamy sand lenses the same color as the matrix throughout