IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kenduskeag

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: ME-04-08-019-04

User Pedon ID: ME-04-08-019-04

Vegetation Plot ID: ME-04-08-019-04

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes

Lab Pedon # - 05N0223

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17662

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: 44.9202500

Std. Longitude: -69.1187500

Datum: WGS84

Location Description: Exeter, ME.

Map Unit: KMB—Kenduskeag-Monarda 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: TD, SP, RO

Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, frigid Aquic Dystrudepts

Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct

Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series

Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS

Pedon #: 4

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 - Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, frigid Aquic Dystrudepts

PSC - 25 to 100 cm.

Classificaton Date - 8/5/2004

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: footslope

Slope Position: lower third

Slope Complexity: simple

Slope Shape Across: linear

Slope Shape Down: linear

Drainage Class: somewhat poorly

Geology: Waterville formation.

Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent nonflat rounded 2- to 75-millimeter 5.00 percent nonflat rounded 250- to 600-millimeter 15.00 percent nonflat rounded 601 5.00 percent nonflat rounded 75- to 250-millimeter

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 8/5/2004 (actual site observation date)

Air Photo ID: 9195-39

Surface Water Kind: none observed

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

Current Weather - sunny

Current Air Temp - 22

Vegetation Plot Plants
Plant Symbol	Scientific Name	National Vernacular Name	Plant Type Group	Canopy Cover %	Vegetation Stata Level
ABBA ACRU BETUL ONSE THOC2	Abies balsamea Acer rubrum Betula Onoclea sensibilis Thuja occidentalis	balsam fir red maple birch sensitive fern arborvitae	— — — — —	— — — — —	— — — — —

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
cambic horizon redox concentrations redox depletions with chroma 2 or less	10—51 28—152 51—152	—41— —124— —101—

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
2	—	—	103	—	90	—	—	125	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; 9 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.5 medium roots throughout and 1.5 fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium tubular and 1.0 fine tubular and 1.0 coarse tubular pores; 3 percent by volume subrounded ? to 15-? millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume subangular ? to 20-? millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; - 7 - percent of the total horizon; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Bw1—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); 95 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face and 5 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face silt loam; 11 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 1.0 medium tubular and 1.0 fine tubular and 1.0 coarse tubular pores; 4 percent by volume subrounded ? to 15-? millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume subangular ? to 20-? millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; - 12 - percent of the total horizon; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Secondary color represents weathered fragments that are very friable, fine to medium in size and sil in texture.

Bw2—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); 76 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face and 5 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face and 3 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face loam; 8 percent clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium tubular and 1.0 fine tubular pores; 8 percent fine distinct spherical brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, throughout and 8 percent fine distinct spherical light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist, throughout; 2 percent by volume angular extremely weakly coherent cemented ? to 20-? millimeter phyllite fragments and 10 percent by volume subrounded strongly coherent cemented ? to 15-? millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; - 15 - percent of the total horizon; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Secondary colors represent weathered fragments that are very friable, fine and medium in size, and sil and sl in texture.

BC—51 to 107 centimeters (20.1 to 42.1 inches); 66 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face and 5 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face and 4 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 3 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; 21 percent clay; moderate medium platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent medium distinct spherical dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, throughout and 12 percent medium distinct spherical gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, throughout; 4 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented ? to 20-? millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume subrounded strongly coherent cemented ? to 15-? millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 12 percent by volume subangular extremely weakly coherent cemented ? to 20-? millimeter phyllite fragments; - 37 - percent of the total horizon; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Secondary colors represent weathered fragments that are fine to medium in size, sil and sl in texture.

C—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); 93 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face and 3 percent black (5YR 2.5/1) broken face silt loam; 20 percent clay; structureless massive; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2 percent medium faint spherical gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, throughout and 2 percent medium faint spherical dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, throughout; 10 percent by volume subrounded strongly coherent cemented ? to 15-? millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; - 30 - percent of the total horizon; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket. Secondary colors represent weathered fragemnts that are fine to medium in size and sil in texture.