IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hermon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978ME013001
  • User Pedon ID: 78ME013001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0577
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46131
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 44.0263901
  • Std. Longitude: -68.6263885
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ME. Knox County, town of Isle Au Haut in pit on N side of gravel rd E of Merchant Brook
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME013—Knox

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G.Jordan K.LaFlamme W.Hoar D.McMurtry R.Yeck
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hermon
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Haplorthods
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1978
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 70.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

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    6

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    O1—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); undecomposed organic matter; fragments. Not sampled. Very fine needles and twigs
    O2—1 to 8 centimeters (0.4 to 3.1 inches); very dusky red (2.5YR 2/2) interior partially decomposed organic matter; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 very fine roots and 1.0 roots; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03412. many very fine roots; few to common roots
    A2—8 to 27 centimeters (3.1 to 10.6 inches); gray (5YR 6/1) interior gravelly sandy loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03413. common very fine roots; common medium roots
    B21h—27 to 32 centimeters (10.6 to 12.6 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine and medium roots; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 78P03414. common very fine roots; common fine and medium roots
    B22ir—32 to 63 centimeters (12.6 to 24.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior very gravelly sandy loam; massive; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 15 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume 600-?-? millimeter mixed fragments and 65 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03415. Thin sec is mostly rock.On the edge of the rock there is dense amorphous brn aggregate mat with imbedded fine and very fine sand grains; few very fine and fine roots
    B23—63 to 92 centimeters (24.8 to 36.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior very gravelly loamy sand; massive, and structureless single grain; loose; 0.5 very fine roots; 10 percent by volume 600-?-? millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03416. Weakly and strongly cemented in 75 percent of the horizon. loose in 25 percent of the horizon; few very fine roots
    C—92 to 158 centimeters (36.2 to 62.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior very gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; 0.5 very fine roots; 15 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume 600-?-? millimeter mixed fragments and 75 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 78P03417. few very fine roots