IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Thorndike
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S08ME003007
  • User Pedon ID: S08ME003007.Thorndike
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S08ME003007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0149
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24121
  • 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: 46.8929667
  • Std. Longitude: -68.8075028
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14
  • Range: 8
  • Location Description: Maine, Aroostook County, Fish River Lake quadrangle, Wilderness Road 9.5 miles, logging road to left on bedrock face.
  • Map Unit: 3389E—Winnecook-Thorndike complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes, very rocky
  • Country: US—United States
  • 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: 46068-G7—Fish River Lake, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mary Jo Kimble, Jack Jackson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic, frigid Lithic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Thorndike
  • PSC - 8 to 40 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/18/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Thorndike
  • Classificaton Date - 7/15/2008
  • 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


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gravelly subglacial till derived from slate
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very weakly coherent strong weathered slate at 40cm with <10 and a strike of 90 degrees
  • Surface Fragments: 3.00 percent flat subrounded very weakly coherent cemented 2- to 150-millimeter metamorphic, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/15/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9210-56
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Microrelief Kind: microhigh
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - -1
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABBA

    PIMA

    PIRU

    Abies balsamea

    Picea mariana

    Picea rubens

    balsam fir

    black spruce

    red spruce

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

    bedrock, lithic

    very weakly coherent

    40 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    hemic soil materials

    sapric soil materials

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—13

    0—3

    3—8

    8—13

    13—33

    33—40

    40—

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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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    306

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    150

    905

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    105

    3.1

    16.4

    0.8

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    171472

    Clayton Lake

    U.S. Official
    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) broken face moderately decomposed plant material; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; extremely acid, pH 4.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; Many very fine to very coarse throughout.
    Oa—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) broken face highly decomposed plant material; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; extremely acid, pH 3.6, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; Many very fine to very coarse throughout.
    E—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) broken face channery silt loam; 27 percent sand; 62 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 15 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-100-150 millimeter slate fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; extremely acid, pH 3.7, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; Common fine to coarse throughout.
    Bs1—13 to 22 centimeters (5.1 to 8.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed channery loam; 43 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 30 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-100-150 millimeter slate fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots: Common fine to coarse throughout.
    Bs2—22 to 33 centimeters (8.7 to 13.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) crushed very channery loam; 44 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 45 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-100-150 millimeter slate fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; Common fine to coarse throughout.
    BC—33 to 40 centimeters (13.0 to 15.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face very channery loam; 42 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 45 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-100-150 millimeter slate fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; Few fine and medium throughout.
    R—40 centimeters (15.7 inches); extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments.; moist when described; observed in cut