IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Penobscot
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: ME-03-09-019-12
  • User Pedon ID: ME-03-09-019-12
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0379
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15795
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 45.0180556
  • Std. Longitude: -69.1708333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Garland
  • Map Unit: CrB—Corinna-Penobscot complex, 3 to 8 percent slopes, rocky
  • 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, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Penobscot
  • PSC - 25 to 69 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, mixed, subactive, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 25 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/10/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth 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: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent phyllite at 69cm
  • Geology: Waterville formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/10/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9200-114
  • 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, 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

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    20—36

    69—

    —16—

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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

    7

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    131

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    220

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    140

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face silt loam; 12 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat angular 2-25-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); variegated 95 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 3 percent weak red (2.5YR 4/2) broken face and 2 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face silt loam; 31 percent sand; 53 percent silt; 16 percent clay; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat angular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Secondary colors represent very friable weathered fine to coarse gravels.
    BC—36 to 69 centimeters (14.2 to 27.2 inches); variegated 92 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face and 2 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face and 2 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face and 2 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face and 2 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) broken face and 2 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) broken face silt loam; 34 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 14 percent clay; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat angular 2-25-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat angular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Secondary colors represent very friable weathered fine to coarse gravels.
    R—69 centimeters (27.2 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small