IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Scantic
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019ME029001
  • User Pedon ID: S2019ME029001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0166
  • User Project ID: 2019-DFX
  • Project Name: MLRA - 143 & 146 - Sample TSCAN Sites
  • 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: 44.9030670
  • Std. Longitude: -67.0554750
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: TSCAN site on property owned by the Passamaquoddy Indians (Pleasant Point, ME)
  • Map Unit: RhC—Rawsonville-Hogback complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME029—Washington
  • 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: ME617—Washington County Area, Maine
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44067-H1—Eastport (digital), Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nick Butler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, nonacid, frigid Typic Epiaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Scantic
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, illitic, nonacid, frigid Typic Epiaquepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/18/2019
  • Classifier - T. Jenkins
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: marine deposits
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: marine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/18/2019 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Tony Jenkins
  • Air Photo ID: 9190-139
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    fragipan

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    75 - 100

    - 25 -

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

    cambic horizon

    fragipan

    20—75

    75—100

    —55—

    —25—
    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

    1.5

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    68

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) broken face silt loam; moderate medium 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; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 20N00605; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—20 to 45 centimeters (7.9 to 17.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent medium prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 40 percent coarse faint gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, iron depletions throughout; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 20N00606; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—45 to 75 centimeters (17.7 to 29.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent coarse prominent dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, iron depletions throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 20N00607; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Clay films present
    BCx—75 to 100 centimeters (29.5 to 39.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine roots between peds; 5 percent medium distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 40 percent coarse prominent gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, iron depletions throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 20N00608; wet, satiated when described; observed in pit, small. Clay films present