IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ragmuff
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S07ME025003.Elliottsville
  • User Pedon ID: S07ME025003.Elliottsville
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S07ME025003.Elliottsville
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0132
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19639
  • 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: 45.9880556
  • Std. Longitude: -70.0324722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Somerset County, Foley Pond 7.5 minute topo quad, photo # 9214-16, at lat-long shown below.
  • Map Unit: 76C—Telos-Chesuncook-Ragmuff association, 3 to 15 percent slopes, rocky
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME025—Somerset
  • 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: 45070-H1—Foley Pond, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bob Evon, Tony Jenkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Aquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ragmuff
  • PSC - 30 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/10/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elliottsville
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lodgment till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: dissected drumlin
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered phyllite at 66cm and a strike of 45 degrees and a dip of 20 to 30 degrees
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat indurated 250- to 600-millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified, 0.50 percent nonflat indurated 600- to 1800-millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/10/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9214-16
  • 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

    ACSA3

    FAGR

    BEPA

    Acer saccharum

    Fagus grandifolia

    Betula papyrifera

    sugar maple

    American beech

    paper birch

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

    densic material

    bedrock, lithic

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    indurated

    53 - 66

    66 -

    - 13 -

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

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    densic materials

    lithic contact

    5—8

    8—42

    42—66

    56—66

    66—

    —3—

    —34—

    —13—

    —10—

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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

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    530

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    90

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    Oa—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) broken face mucky peat; weak medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 8.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat very strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00884; moist when described;
    E—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); 80 percent gray (7.5YR 6/1) interior and 20 percent pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) interior loam; 12 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume flat very strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 08N00885; moist when described;
    Bs1—8 to 42 centimeters (3.1 to 16.5 inches); 90 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) crushed and 10 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) crushed loam; 12 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.5 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat very strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0800886; moist when described;
    Bs2—42 to 56 centimeters (16.5 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed fine sandy loam; 10 percent clay; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium distinct spherical and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct irregular mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate thin platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.5 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 1 percent fine distinct spherical noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix surrounding redox depletions and 2 percent medium prominent spherical noncoherent cemented pale red (2.5YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 1 percent fine grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, and red (2.5YR 5/6), moist, and 1 percent medium grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, and red (2.5YR 5/6), moist,; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00887; moist when described;
    Cd—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face channery fine sandy loam; 8 percent clay; moderate thin platy structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 1 percent prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent faint light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume flat strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 08N00888; moist when described;
    R—66 centimeters (26.0 inches); fragments.