IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sebasticook
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: ME-02-11-019-21
  • User Pedon ID: ME-02-11-019-21
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0645
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14848
  • 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: 44.9905556
  • Std. Longitude: -69.0419444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 185' uphill, 110 degrees T.N. from poplar pole with pink flagging, 198' uphill 185 degrees T.N. from alder sapling with pink ribbon. Go 0.6 miles SE on Notch Rd. from Tr. 43 in west Corinth. Pedon is in cropland above (to NE) road at location described in triangulation above.
  • Map Unit: SpB—Sebasticook-Penobscot association, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME019—Penobscot
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME612—Penobscot County, Maine, Southern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DET
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sebasticook
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/7/2016
  • Classifier - SSOL
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sebasticook
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2002
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lodgment till over residuum
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: Gentle sloping hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: phyllite at 144cm
  • Geology: Waterville formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/15/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9195-80
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    densic material

    bedrock, lithic

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    107 - 144

    144 -

    - 37 -

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

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    lithic contact

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    23—49

    107—144

    107—

    107—144

    107—144

    —26—

    —37—

    —-

    —37—

    —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

    5

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    68.6

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    280

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; 11 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3 percent by volume flat angular 2-35-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Bw—23 to 49 centimeters (9.1 to 19.3 inches); 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3), 64 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; silt loam; 33 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 7 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent by volume flat angular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-35-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume flat angular 2-35-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    BC—49 to 107 centimeters (19.3 to 42.1 inches); 94 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; 11 percent sand; 71 percent silt; 18 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat angular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-35-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary.; moist when described;
    Cd—107 to 144 centimeters (42.1 to 56.7 inches); silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese concretions on faces of peds and 5 percent coarse prominent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat angular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-35-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume flat angular 2-35-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt broken boundary.; moist when described;
    R—144 centimeters (56.7 inches); fragments.