IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Monson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S07ME003005.Monson
  • User Pedon ID: S07ME003005.Monson
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S07ME003005.Monson
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0115
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19622
  • 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: 46.9333694
  • Std. Longitude: -69.2858389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15
  • Range: 12
  • Location Description: Michuand Farm Road - 18 miles across Ben Glazier Brook at BG02 About 100 feet up rd on right.
  • Map Unit: 89C—Ragmuff-Monson complex, 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: 46069-H3—McKinnon Brook, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MJK
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, active, frigid Lithic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Monson
  • PSC - 35 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/10/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Monson
  • Classificaton Date - 10/3/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: subglacial till
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: sandstone, unspecified at 56cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/3/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9202-19
  • 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 - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 20
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABBA

    ACSA3

    PIRU

    Abies balsamea

    Acer saccharum

    Picea rubens

    balsam fir

    sugar maple

    red spruce

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    56 -

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

    sapric soil materials

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—10

    0—15

    10—15

    15—20

    20—56

    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

    8

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    —

    338

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    160

    905

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    105

    3.1

    16.4

    0.8

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    171472

    Clayton Lake

    U.S. Official
    Oa—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) highly decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00778; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. roots; many f throughout many m throughout many c throughout
    E—10 to 15 centimeters (3.9 to 5.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; 14 percent clay; weak thin platy structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume angular 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00779; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. roots; many f throughout many m throughout few c throughout
    Bhs—15 to 20 centimeters (5.9 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 4 percent by volume angular 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00780; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. roots; few f throughout few m throughout few c throughout
    Bs—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume angular 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00781; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. roots; few f throughout few m around rock fragments
    BC—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) very gravelly loam; 14 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 30 percent by volume angular 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00782; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. roots; few f around rock fragments
    R—56 centimeters (22.0 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, large or quarry