IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kenduskeag
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: ME-04-06-019-17
  • User Pedon ID: ME-04-06-019-17
  • Vegetation Plot ID: ME-04-06-019-17
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0228
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16845
  • 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: 44.9303333
  • Std. Longitude: -69.2246944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: KeB—Kenduskeag silt loam, 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: SSP
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, frigid Aquic Dystric Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kenduskeag
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/8/2016
  • Classifier - SSOL
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kenduskeag
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, frigid, shallow Aquic Dystric Eutrudepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/21/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lodgment till over residuum
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: drainageway
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: phyllite at 102cm
  • Geology: Waterville formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/21/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9205-133
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 21
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    2GLA

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    Grasslike, annual

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    102 -

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

    redox concentrations

    cambic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithic contact

    13—102

    30—81

    46—102

    102—

    —89—

    —51—

    —56—

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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

    4.5

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    —

    125

    —

    335

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    125

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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); 95 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3) broken face channery silt loam; 9 percent clay; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium pores; 5 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, throughout; 15 percent by volume angular ? to 20-? millimeter unspecified fragments; - 30 - percent of the total horizon; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); 92 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silt loam; 11 percent clay; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium pores; 8 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, throughout; 10 percent by volume angular ? to 20-? millimeter unspecified fragments; - 15 - percent of the total horizon; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—46 to 81 centimeters (18.1 to 31.9 inches); 74 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 8 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) broken face and 5 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) broken face and 5 percent very dark gray (5YR 3/1) broken face gravelly silt loam; 12 percent clay; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 medium pores; 5 percent coarse distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 10 percent coarse distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 3 percent by volume subangular ? to 20-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume subrounded ? to 15-? millimeter unspecified fragments; - 35 - percent of the total horizon; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Secondary colors are from weathered fragmentsthat are medium and coarse in size.
    C—81 to 102 centimeters (31.9 to 40.2 inches); 57 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 5 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) broken face and 5 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face and 5 percent very dark gray (5YR 3/1) broken face channery silt loam; 17 percent clay; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 medium pores; 5 percent medium prominent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, throughout and 8 percent medium prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, throughout and 15 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, throughout; 15 percent by volume subangular ? to 20-? millimeter unspecified fragments; - 20 - percent of the total horizon; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Secondary colors are from weathered fragmentsthat are medium and coarse in size.
    R—102 centimeters (40.2 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small