IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Swanville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: ME-06-08-019-21
  • User Pedon ID: ME-06-08-019-21
  • Vegetation Plot ID: ME-06-08-019-21
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - lincoln
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N1086
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18676
  • 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: 44.8467484
  • Std. Longitude: -69.0043030
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1600 feet east of Horseback Rd., 4800 feet SSE of village of S. Levant, Levant Twp. Site is on a nearly level bench below a C slope esker and above a swamp - swamp apears to be approx. 10 feet lower in elevation.
  • Map Unit: PsB—Pushaw-Swanville complex, 0 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44069-G1—Carmel, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RE, NB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, nonacid, frigid Aeric Epiaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 21
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Swanville
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/8/2016
  • Classifier - SSOL
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Swanville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, nonacid, frigid Aeric Epiaquepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/5/2014
  • Classifier - d turcotte
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glaciomarine deposits
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: lake plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/22/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9195-84
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    ALINR

    CAREX

    JUNCU

    ONSE

    PIGL

    PIST

    PRPE2

    RUOC

    Alnus incana ssp. rugosa

    Carex

    Juncus

    Onoclea sensibilis

    Picea glauca

    Pinus strobus

    Prunus pensylvanica

    Rubus occidentalis

    speckled alder

    sedge

    rush

    sensitive fern

    white spruce

    eastern white pine

    pin cherry

    black raspberry

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

    episaturation

    aquic conditions

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—122

    0—165

    0—13

    13—20

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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

    3

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    58

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    140

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent fine faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 10 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); 70 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) broken face and 30 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) broken face silt loam; 19 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent fine faint light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. silt loam texture but higher clay content than in the Ap horizon
    Bg—20 to 64 centimeters (7.9 to 25.2 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) broken face silty clay loam; 31 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent medium faint olive gray (5Y 4/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 25 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—64 to 117 centimeters (25.2 to 46.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak coarse angular blocky parts to strong medium platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, iron-manganese masses and 10 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 30 percent coarse distinct gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—117 to 165 centimeters (46.1 to 65.0 inches); 60 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face and 40 percent 5GY 6/ (5GY 6/), broken face silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate thick platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent medium distinct olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 30 percent medium distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in pit, small