IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cabot
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959ME019002
  • User Pedon ID: ME-59-10-019-02
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0398
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32926
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: -68.5717222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Penobscot County, Maine. 3 miles east of Milford village on county road. Pit is about 100 yards east of cottage with pink fence.
  • Map Unit: BRB—Brayton-Colonel complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes, very stony
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME019—Penobscot
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: K. V. Goodman, R. M. Riley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, acid, frigid, shallow Typic Humaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cabot
  • PSC - 39 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/10/2015
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Peacham
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/14/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lodgment till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: hill
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/14/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    densic material

    noncoherent

    58 - 102

    - 44 -

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

    sapric soil materials

    umbric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    reduced matrix

    densic contact

    redox concentrations

    0—13

    13—33

    33—102

    33—102

    58—102

    58—102

    —13—

    —20—

    —69—

    —69—

    —44—

    —44—
    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

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    Oa—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face muck; fragments.; observed in pit, small. horizon is finely fibrous mat of organic material
    A—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); very dark gray (N 3/), broken face fine sandy loam; 5 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly sticky, nonplastic; 12 percent by volume unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bg—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) broken face gravelly fine sandy loam; 3 percent clay; weak thick platy parts to weak coarse granular structure; friable; dendritic brown (10YR 4/3), moist, masses of reduced iron on surfaces along root channels; 25 percent by volume nonflat 2-34-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cdg1—58 to 89 centimeters (22.8 to 35.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) broken face gravelly fine sandy loam; 2 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent yellow (10YR 7/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, masses of reduced iron; 34 percent by volume nonflat 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. soil in this horizon is brittle and friable when displaced
    Cdg2—89 to 102 centimeters (35.0 to 40.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) broken face gravelly fine sandy loam; 2 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak coarse granular structure; very firm; yellow (10YR 7/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, masses of reduced iron; 34 percent by volume nonflat 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. soil in this horizon is brittle and friable when displaced - down to 40", then grades into extremely firm or hard till that becomes wet from water seeping into pit