IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marlow
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007ME021008.Marlow
  • User Pedon ID: S07ME021008.Marlow
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007ME021008.Marlow
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0127
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19634
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 45.4183350
  • Std. Longitude: -69.1627808
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6
  • Range: 9
  • Location Description: Town of Barnard, on the Silver Lake 7.5 minute quadrangle, at lat-long shown below
  • 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-D2—Silver Lake, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tony Jenkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Oxyaquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marlow
  • PSC - 35 to 90 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/12/2014
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Marlow
  • Classificaton Date - 10/26/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - tree
  • Forest Understory Veg. Type - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lodgment till derived from granite and gneiss
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: drumlinoid ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 250- to 600-millimeter igneous, acid, 1.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 600- to 1500-millimeter igneous, acid,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/26/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and 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

    ACRU

    ACSA3

    FAGR

    PIRU

    TSCA

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharum

    Fagus grandifolia

    Picea rubens

    Tsuga canadensis

    red maple

    sugar maple

    American beech

    red spruce

    eastern hemlock

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    —

    —

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

    densic material

    noncoherent

    67 -

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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

    densic materials

    densic contact

    redox concentrations

    0—10

    0—15

    10—17

    17—42

    67—200

    67—

    67—200

    —-

    —15—

    —7—

    —25—

    —-

    —-

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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

    10

    —

    —

    212

    —

    45

    905

    —

    105

    3.1

    16.4

    0.8

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    171472

    Clayton Lake

    US Official
    Oa—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) crushed highly decomposed plant material; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 8.0 very coarse roots throughout and 8.0 medium and coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00852; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—10 to 17 centimeters (3.9 to 6.7 inches); gray (7.5YR 6/1) interior gravelly silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 8.0 very coarse roots throughout and 8.0 medium and coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 27 percent by volume , 36 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00853; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bhs—17 to 21 centimeters (6.7 to 8.3 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) crushed gravelly loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 17 percent by volume , 26 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 08N00854; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs—21 to 42 centimeters (8.3 to 16.5 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) crushed gravelly loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 29 percent by volume , 42 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00855; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—42 to 67 centimeters (16.5 to 26.4 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior very gravelly fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 32 percent by volume , 46 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00856; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    CB—67 to 90 centimeters (26.4 to 35.4 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) broken face very gravelly sandy loam; structureless massive; firm; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 33 percent by volume , 48 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00857; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cd1—90 to 165 centimeters (35.4 to 65.0 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) broken face very gravelly sandy loam; structureless massive; firm; 1 percent distinct noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron around rock fragments and 2 percent faint noncoherent cemented olive (5Y 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron around rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 47 percent by volume , 62 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00858; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cd2—165 to 200 centimeters (65.0 to 78.7 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) broken face extremely gravelly fine sandy loam; structureless massive; firm; 1 percent distinct noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron around rock fragments and 2 percent faint noncoherent cemented olive (5Y 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron around rock fragments; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 45 percent by volume , 59 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter. Lab sample # 08N00859; moist when described; observed in pit, small