IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elliottsville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: ME-02-11-019-43
  • User Pedon ID: ME-02-11-019-43
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0650
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14853
  • 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: 44.9383333
  • Std. Longitude: -69.1716667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: The site is in Exeter on a road cut that was sampled during the 2002 field review
  • Map Unit: PWB—Penobscot-Wassookeag-Corinna complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes, very stony
  • 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 Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elliottsville
  • PSC - 25 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/11/2010
  • Classifier - SSOL
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Penquis
  • Classificaton Date - 11/5/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Glaciated basal till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: at 69cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/5/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9200-112
  • 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    69 -

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

    sapric soil materials

    albic horizon

    humilluvic material

    spodic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—5

    5—8

    8—10

    10—51

    69—

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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

    8

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    140

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    320

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    Oa—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face highly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut
    E—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face; fragments; abrupt broken boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut
    Bhs—8 to 10 centimeters (3.1 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face; fragments; abrupt broken boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut
    Bs1—10 to 36 centimeters (3.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) broken face silt loam; 17 percent clay; 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut
    Bs2—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face gravelly silt loam, gravelly fine sandy loam; 13 percent clay; 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut
    BC—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face gravelly silt loam, gravelly fine sandy loam; 12 percent clay; 25 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut
    R—69 centimeters (27.2 inches); fragments.; observed in cut