IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Telos
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007ME021007
  • User Pedon ID: 2007ME021007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2007ME021007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0126
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19633
  • 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: 46.0936667
  • Std. Longitude: -69.6585833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5
  • Range: 15
  • Location Description: Profile taken on a roadcut off side trail near Whitney Brook Road (Bean Pot NE). Hill slope was transected leaving higher side exposed as Telos and the other side as Monarda. Samples were collected to send to NSSL.
  • Map Unit: 74B—Telos-Monarda-Ragmuff association, 0 to 8 percent slopes, rocky
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME021—Piscataquis
  • MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 12-7—Presque Isle, MaineNE-DFX—Dover-Foxcroft, Maine
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME620—Northern Piscataquis and Northern Somerset County Area, Maine
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46069-A6—Bean Pot Pond, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nick R Butler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, isotic, frigid, shallow Aquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Telos
  • PSC - 33 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/18/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Telos
  • Classificaton Date - 10/18/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - tree
  • Forest Understory Veg. Type - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lodgment till derived from metamorphic rock
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 250- to 600-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/18/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9202-156
  • Microrelief Kind: microhigh
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PIRU

    THOC2

    ABBA

    ACRU

    BEPA

    FAGUS

    2MOSS

    Picea rubens

    Thuja occidentalis

    Abies balsamea

    Acer rubrum

    Betula papyrifera

    Fagus

    —

    red spruce

    arborvitae

    balsam fir

    red maple

    paper birch

    beech

    Moss

    —

    —

    —

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    —

    —

    —

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

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    48 - 165

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

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    densic contact

    8—13

    13—33

    33—165

    48—165

    48—165

    —5—

    —20—

    —119—

    —119—

    —104—
    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

    4

    —

    —

    378

    —

    320

    905

    —

    105

    3.1

    16.4

    0.8

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    —

    —

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    171472

    Clayton Lake

    US Official
    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) crushed slightly decomposed plant material; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.8, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00847; moist when described; observed in cut
    Oe—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) crushed moderately decomposed plant material; 0.7 very fine roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.8, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut
    E—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior silt loam; 9 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00848; moist when described; observed in cut
    Bs—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed loam; 13 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.7 medium roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00849; moist when described; observed in cut
    BC—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); 89 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior loam; 11 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.7 very fine and fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine faint light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist, iron depletions throughout and 10 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00850; moist when described; observed in cut
    Cd—48 to 152 centimeters (18.9 to 59.8 inches); 89 percent olive (5Y 5/3) broken face loam; 14 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent fine prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 10 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume flat very strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter. Lab sample # 08N00851; moist when described; observed in cut