IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lyman
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003ME01902
  • User Pedon ID: ME-03-11-019-02
  • Vegetation Plot ID: ME-03-11-019-02
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Lincoln
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0377
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15793
  • 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: 44.9403889
  • Std. Longitude: -69.1105000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: LXD—Lyman-Abram-Tunbridge complex, 8 to 30 percent slopes, very 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44069-H1—West Corinth, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DET
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, isotic, frigid Lithic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lyman
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, isotic, frigid Lithic Haplorthods
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 33 to 51 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/7/2014
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till derived from metasedimentary rock
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated metasedimentary rock, unspecified at 51cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent nonflat rounded 250- to 600-millimeter 5.00 percent nonflat rounded 250- to 600-millimeter 5.00 percent nonflat rounded 75- to 250-millimeter 5.00 percent nonflat rounded 75- to 250-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/6/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9195-41
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABBA

    PIRU

    THOC2

    Abies balsamea

    Picea rubens

    Thuja occidentalis

    balsam fir

    red spruce

    arborvitae

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    51 -

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

    sapric soil materials

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—8

    0—10

    8—10

    10—20

    51—

    —8—

    —10—

    —2—

    —13—

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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

    4

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    152

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    260

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    Oa—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); highly decomposed plant material; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    E—8 to 10 centimeters (3.1 to 3.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face fine sandy loam; 5 percent clay; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments.; observed in pit, small
    Bs—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face silt loam; 24 percent sand; 71 percent silt; 5 percent clay; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter.; observed in pit, small
    BC—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face gravelly silt loam; 30 percent sand; 63 percent silt; 7 percent clay; 16 percent by volume , 24 percent by weight nonflat rounded 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter.; observed in pit, small
    R—51 centimeters (20.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small