IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Penobscot
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: ME-02-11-019-25
  • User Pedon ID: ME-02-11-019-25
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0649
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14852
  • 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: 45.0144444
  • Std. Longitude: -69.0650000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: On Thamas potatoe farm NE Corinth; 50'@345 degress into field from first tree along edge of field; .4 miles in off rt 15 on road; field past farmhouse (on same side of road).
  • 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/EED
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 24
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Penobscot
  • PSC - 25 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/7/2016
  • Classifier - SSOL
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Penobscot
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/14/2002
  • 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 hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent phyllite at 65cm with 45 to <100
  • Geology: Waterville formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/14/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9195-43
  • 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

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    weakly coherent

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    43 - 65

    65 -

    - 22 -

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

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    25—43

    43—65

    65—

    —18—

    —22—

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    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

    3

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    93

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    105

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    140

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; 11 percent clay; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat angular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat angular 2-25-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.3, chlorophenol red.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; 33 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 12 percent clay; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat angular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat angular 2-25-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cr—43 to 65 centimeters (16.9 to 25.6 inches); fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—65 centimeters (25.6 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small