IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kenduskeag
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2004ME019019
  • User Pedon ID: 2004ME019019
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0227
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16844
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 44.8680000
  • Std. Longitude: -69.1540833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: KeB—Kenduskeag silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David Turcotte/Bob Evon
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, frigid Aquic Dystric Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 19
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kenduskeag
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/10/2010
  • Classifier - SSOL
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kenduskeag
  • Classificaton Date - 6/24/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lodgment till over residuum
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Waterville formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/24/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9200-108
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    20—46

    20—152

    46—152

    —26—

    —132—

    —112—
    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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    —

    76

    —

    45

    —

    —

    125

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); 99 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face silt loam; 10 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-20-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-15-75 millimeter mixed fragments; - 13 - percent of the total horizon; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); 70 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) broken face and 30 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; 37 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium platy structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist,; 1 percent by volume flat subangular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-15-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-20-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-15-75 millimeter mixed fragments; - 17 - percent of the total horizon; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—46 to 84 centimeters (18.1 to 33.1 inches); 97 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face and 1 percent dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) broken face and 1 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face parachannery silt loam; 28 percent sand; 57 percent silt; 15 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent fine prominent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, on vertical faces of peds and 5 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, manganese masses on vertical faces of peds and 10 percent medium prominent olive gray (5Y 5/2), moist, on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-20-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume flat subangular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-20-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-15-75 millimeter mixed fragments; - 25 - percent of the total horizon; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—84 to 152 centimeters (33.1 to 59.8 inches); 90 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face and 3 percent very dark gray (5Y 3/1) broken face and 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face and 2 percent dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) broken face and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 1 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) broken face cobbly silt loam; 28 percent sand; 57 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent fine olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), moist, throughout and 5 percent fine pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), moist, throughout and 8 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, throughout and 8 percent fine distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, manganese masses throughout and 15 percent medium light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, throughout; 2 percent by volume flat subrounded extremely weakly coherent cemented 75-150-250 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-15-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume flat subangular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 75-150-250 millimeter mixed fragments; - 45 - percent of the total horizon; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in pit, small