IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elliottsville

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: 2009ME003001

User Pedon ID: 2009ME003001

Vegetation Plot ID: S09ME003001.Elliottsville

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - NSSL

Lab Pedon # - 10N0305

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 28229

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: 46.9811944

Std. Longitude: -69.1819167

Datum: WGS84

Township: 14

Range: 11

PLSS Details: of Section, Township 14 Range 11

Location Description: Turn left at mile 12 on Michaud Farm Rd before pit. Approximately 2 miles in.

Map Unit: 76D—Chesuncook-Elliottsville association, 15 to 35 percent slopes, rocky

State: Maine

County: ME003—Aroostook

MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains

MLRA Soil Survey Area: 12-7—Presque Isle, Maine

Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME621—Western Aroostook County Area, Maine

7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46069-H2—Allagash Falls, Maine

PEDON

Describers Name: Tony Jenkins, Judith Ball, and Kyle Thomson

Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Haplorthods

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series

Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Elliottsville

PSC - 39 to 72 cm.

Classificaton Date - 8/18/2011

Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition

Moisture Class - udic

Moisture Subclass - udic

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Elliottsville

Classificaton Date - 7/14/2009

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: coarse-loamy lodgment till

Landscape: hills

Landform: till plain

Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope

Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, lower third

Hill Slope Profile: backslope

Slope Position: lower third

Slope Complexity: simple

Slope Shape Across: concave

Slope Shape Down: convex

Drainage Class: well

Flooding: none flooding

Ponding: none ponding

Bedrock: weakly coherent metasedimentary rock, unspecified at 72cm

Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent nonflat weakly coherent cemented metasedimentary, unspecified,

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 7/14/2009 (actual site observation date)

Air Photo ID:

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

Yield Study ID -

Vegetation Plot Plants
Plant Symbol	Scientific Name	National Vernacular Name	Plant Type Group	Canopy Cover %	Vegetation Stata Level
ABBA ACRU BEPA CLBO3 OXALI POTR5	Abies balsamea Acer rubrum Betula papyrifera Clintonia borealis Oxalis Populus tremuloides	balsam fir red maple paper birch bluebead woodsorrel quaking aspen	— — — — — —	— — — — — —	— — — — — —

Pedon Restrictions
Kind	Hardness	Restriction Depth L-H	Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
		cm
bedrock, lithic	indurated	72 -	—

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
hemic soil materials ochric epipedon sapric soil materials albic horizon albic materials spodic horizon cambic horizon lithic contact	0—4 0—20 4—14 14—20 14—20 20—35 35—72 72—	—4— —20— —10— —6— —6— —15— —37— —-

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
23	—	—	387	—	310	905	—	105	3.1	16.4	0.8	—	—	—	—	—	171472	Clayton Lake	U.S. Official

Oi—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face slightly decomposed plant material; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-375-600 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. Roots; many fine throughout

Oe1—4 to 8 centimeters (1.6 to 3.1 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) broken face moderately decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; and and and ; 5 percent by volume nonflat 250-375-600 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; extremely acid, pH 3.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. Roots; many very fine-coarse throughout

Oe2—8 to 14 centimeters (3.1 to 5.5 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) broken face moderately decomposed plant material; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat 250-375-600 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; extremely acid, pH 3.8, hellige-truog; abrupt broken boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. Roots; Many very fine-coarse throughout

E—14 to 20 centimeters (5.5 to 7.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face loam; 41 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak medium granular, and fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; abrupt broken boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. Roots; common very fine-medium throughout

Bhs—20 to 23 centimeters (7.9 to 9.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 2.5/2) crushed loam; 44 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. Roots; common very fine-medium throughout

Bs1—23 to 35 centimeters (9.1 to 13.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed loam; 50 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. Roots; many fine-coarse throughout

Bs2—35 to 45 centimeters (13.8 to 17.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) crushed gravelly coarse sandy loam; 58 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-100-150 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. Roots; many fine and medium throughout

BC—45 to 72 centimeters (17.7 to 28.3 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face gravelly sandy loam; 57 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. Roots; few fine throughout

R—72 centimeters (28.3 inches); ; fragments.