IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Telos

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: S07ME003003.Telos

User Pedon ID: S07ME003003.Telos

Vegetation Plot ID: S07ME003003.Telos

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - SSL

Lab Pedon # - 08N0113

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19620

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: 47.1780500

Std. Longitude: -69.0161750

Datum: WGS84

Township: 18

Range: 10

Map Unit: 76C—Telos-Chesuncook-Ragmuff association, 3 to 15 percent slopes, rocky

Country: US—United States

State: Maine

County: ME003—Aroostook

MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains

MLRA Soil Survey Area: 12-7—Presque Isle, Maine

Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME621—Western Aroostook County Area, Maine

7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47069-B1—Falls Brook Lake, Maine

PEDON

Describers Name: TJ/MJK

Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, active, frigid, shallow Aquic Haplorthods

Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct

Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series

Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS

Pedon #: 1

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Telos

PSC - 30 to 50 cm.

Classificaton Date - 2/10/2010

Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Telos

Classificaton Date - 8/8/2006

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: lodgment till

Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope

Hill Slope Profile: footslope

Slope Complexity: simple

Slope Shape Across: linear

Slope Shape Down: concave

Drainage Class: somewhat poorly

Flooding: none flooding

Ponding: none ponding

Surface Fragments: 3.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 250- to 600-millimeter

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 8/8/2006 (actual site observation date)

Air Photo ID: 9201-40

Surface Cover Properties:

Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Drained? - no

Bedded Soil? - no

Forest Plantation? - no

Current Weather - sunny

Current Air Temp - 20

Vegetation Plot Plants
Plant Symbol	Scientific Name	National Vernacular Name	Plant Type Group	Canopy Cover %	Vegetation Stata Level
ABBA ACRU BEAL2 POTR5	Abies balsamea Acer rubrum Betula alleghaniensis Populus tremuloides	balsam fir red maple yellow birch quaking aspen	— — — —	— — — —	— — — —

Pedon Restrictions
Kind	Hardness	Restriction Depth L-H	Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
		cm
densic material	very weakly coherent	50 - 165	—

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
ochric epipedon sapric soil materials albic horizon spodic horizon cambic horizon redox concentrations redox depletions with chroma 2 or less aquic conditions densic contact	0—8 0—5 5—8 8—13 13—50 35—50 35—50 35—88 50—	—- —- —- —- —- —- —- —- —-

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	—	—	311	—	0	905	—	105	3.1	16.4	0.8	—	—	—	—	—	171472	Clayton Lake	U.S. Official

Oa—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (5YR 2.5/1) highly decomposed plant material; moderate medium granular structure; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00767; moist when described;. roots; many vf throughout many f throughout many m throughout many c throughout many vc throughout

E—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) silt loam; 8 percent clay; weak thin platy structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent by volume 76-?-300 millimeter unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.9, pH meter; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 08N00768; moist when described;. roots; many vf throughout many f throughout many m throughout few c throughout

Bs1—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) loam; 17 percent clay; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent by volume 76-?-300 millimeter unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00769; moist when described;. roots; many vf throughout many f throughout many m throughout few c throughout

Bs2—13 to 35 centimeters (5.1 to 13.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) loam; 16 percent clay; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 9 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00770; moist when described;. roots; common f throughout common m throughout

BC—35 to 50 centimeters (13.8 to 19.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) gravelly sandy loam; 11 percent clay; weak thin platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 10 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 2 percent by volume flat subrounded 2-100-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 13 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00771; moist when described;. Lab data for this pedon indicates SL. Calculation in textural calculator plots SL but may be within range of error as sand % of 52.4 results in SL texture. Actual range of error, if any, for Lab Partile Size Analysis is unknown at time of this entry. Sand at 52% would allow Loam and a fit to Series (OSD).; roots; few f throughout few m throughout

Cd1—50 to 88 centimeters (19.7 to 34.6 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) gravelly loam; 17 percent clay; massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 30 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00772; moist when described;

Cd2—88 to 165 centimeters (34.6 to 65.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) gravelly loam; 19 percent clay; massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, pH meter. Lab sample # 08N00773; moist when described;