IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SKERRY
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S08ME021006
  • User Pedon ID: S08ME021006.Skerry
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S08ME021006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0158
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24130
  • 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: 45.6870333
  • Std. Longitude: -69.1014167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1
  • Range: 11
  • Location Description: Jo-Mary road right after the Henderson gate. Near Rabbit Pond
  • 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-F1—Nahmakanta Stream, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ANTHONY JENKINS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, isotic, frigid Aquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SKERRY
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, isotic, frigid Aquic Haplorthods
  • PSC - 33 to 95 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/17/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till derived from granite and gneiss
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 250- to 600-millimeter granite, 1.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 600- to 2400-millimeter granite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/17/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    ABBA

    ACRU

    ACSA3

    BEPA

    POTR5

    Abies balsamea

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharum

    Betula papyrifera

    Populus tremuloides

    balsam fir

    red maple

    sugar maple

    paper birch

    quaking aspen

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

    densic material

    strongly coherent

    89 -

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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 materials

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    aquic conditions

    densic contact

    densic materials

    0—13

    0—2

    2—8

    8—13

    8—13

    13—89

    45—89

    89—

    89—180

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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

    6

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    344

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    905

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    105

    3.1

    16.4

    0.8

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    171472

    Clayton Lake

    US Official
    Oe—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) crushed moderately decomposed plant material; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-375-600 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. COMMON FINE ROOTS
    Oa—2 to 8 centimeters (0.8 to 3.1 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) crushed cobbly highly decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. MANY VERY FINE - VERY COARSE ROOTS
    E—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) interior cobbly fine sandy loam; 64 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; abrupt broken boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. COMMON VERY FINE - VERY COARSE ROOTS
    Bs1—13 to 45 centimeters (5.1 to 17.7 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) crushed cobbly sandy loam; 69 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. COMMON VERY FINE - VERY COARSE ROOTS
    Bs2—45 to 89 centimeters (17.7 to 35.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) crushed cobbly sandy loam; 81 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; slightly dry when described; observed in cut. COMMON VERY FINE TO VERY COARSE ROOTS
    BC—89 to 95 centimeters (35.0 to 37.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior cobbly sandy loam; 87 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent medium and coarse distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in cut. FEW FINE ROOTS
    Cd1—95 to 116 centimeters (37.4 to 45.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face stratified cobbly loamy sand; 85 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 3 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent medium faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in cut
    Cd2—116 to 145 centimeters (45.7 to 57.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face stratified very gravelly loamy sand; 82 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 4 percent clay; structureless massive; very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in cut. STRATIFIED LENSES RANGING FROM SAND TO LOAMY SANDY TO SANDY LOAM; AGGREGATE TEXTURE IS LOAMY SAND
    Cd3—145 to 180 centimeters (57.1 to 70.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face stratified very gravelly loamy sand; 82 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 1 percent clay; structureless massive; very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter.; slightly moist when described; observed in cut. STRATIFIED LENSES OF SAND TO LOAMY SAND TO SANDY LOAM, WITH AN AGGREGATE TEXTURE OF LOAMY SAND