IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tunbridge
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007ME021004.Tunbridge
  • User Pedon ID: S07ME021004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007ME021004.Tunbridge
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0123
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19630
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 45.5613899
  • Std. Longitude: -69.1884995
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Large borrow pit
  • Map Unit: 48D—Marlow-Dixfield-Rawsonville association, 15 to 35 percent slopes, very bouldery
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME021—Piscataquis
  • MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 12-7—Presque Isle, Maine
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME620—Northern Piscataquis and Northern Somerset County Area, Maine
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45069-E2—Big Shanty Mountain, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tony Jenkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tunbridge
  • PSC - 33 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/2014
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tunbridge
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Typic Haplorthod
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/27/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: subglacial till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: mountain
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated at 91cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: nonflat indurated 250- to 600-millimeter mixed, nonflat indurated 600- to 1200-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/27/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    ACPE

    ACRU

    ACSA3

    FAGR

    PIRU

    Acer pensylvanicum

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharum

    Fagus grandifolia

    Picea rubens

    striped maple

    red maple

    sugar maple

    American beech

    red spruce

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    91 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—15

    8—15

    15—41

    91—

    —15—

    —9—

    —26—

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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

    24

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    549

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    42

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    Oi/Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) crushed moderately decomposed plant material; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 7.0 very fine to medium roots throughout and 10.0 very coarse roots throughout and 10.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00828; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Oa—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) crushed highly decomposed plant material; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 7.0 very fine to medium roots throughout and 10.0 very coarse roots throughout and 10.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.9, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00829; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    E—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) interior very gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 7.0 very fine to medium roots throughout and 10.0 very coarse roots throughout and 10.0 coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 33 percent by volume , 47 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.8, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00830; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bhs—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/3) crushed gravelly silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 7.0 very fine to medium roots throughout and 10.0 very coarse roots throughout and 10.0 coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, pH meter; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 08N00831; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bs1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) crushed very gravelly loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 7.0 very fine to medium roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 33 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00832; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bs2—41 to 71 centimeters (16.1 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) extremely gravelly sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat very strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 45 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00833; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bs3—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); 98 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior extremely gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 57 percent by volume , 71 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 08N00834; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. 2% 2.5Y 6/4 sandy particles
    R—91 centimeters (35.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.