IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Monadnock
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S09ME021009.Monadnock
  • User Pedon ID: S09ME021009.Monadnock
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S09ME021009.Monadnock
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0325
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 28249
  • 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: 45.7206111
  • Std. Longitude: -68.8382778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1
  • Range: 9
  • Location Description: Golden Road right before Pemadumcook Lake to the left
  • 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: 45068-F7—Norcross, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tony Jenkins, Mary Jo Kimble, Carl Bickford, Nick Butler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, isotic over mixed, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Monadnock
  • PSC - 31 to 106 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/2/2015
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Monadnock
  • Classificaton Date - 8/26/2009
  • 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: coarse-loamy supraglacial meltout till derived from igneous and metamorphic rock
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: hill
  • Microfeature: mound
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head 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: 5.00 percent nonflat well rounded indurated 250- to 600-millimeter mixed, 5.00 percent nonflat rounded indurated 600- to 2400-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/26/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • 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
  • Yield Study ID -
  • 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

    ACSA3

    BEPA

    FAGR

    PIRE

    PIST

    VAAN

    Acer saccharum

    Betula papyrifera

    Fagus grandifolia

    Pinus resinosa

    Pinus strobus

    Vaccinium angustifolium

    sugar maple

    paper birch

    American beech

    red pine

    eastern white pine

    lowbush blueberry

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

    fibric soil materials

    ochric epipedon

    hemic soil materials

    albic horizon

    albic materials

    spodic horizon

    cambic horizon

    strongly contrasting particle size class

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—1

    0—18

    1—6

    6—18

    6—18

    18—28

    54—62

    62—

    62—

    —1—

    —18—

    —5—

    —12—

    —12—

    —8—

    —8—

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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

    8

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    163

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    90

    905

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    105

    3.1

    16.4

    0.8

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    171472

    Clayton Lake

    U.S. Official
    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face slightly decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 250-375-600 millimeter granite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 600-800-1200 millimeter granite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; many fery fine-very coarse throughout
    Oe—1 to 6 centimeters (0.4 to 2.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face moderately decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 250-375-600 millimeter granite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 600-800-1200 millimeter granite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; many very fine-very coarse throughout
    E—6 to 18 centimeters (2.4 to 7.1 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) broken face silt loam; 43 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 250-375-600 millimeter granite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 600-800-1200 millimeter granite fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; many very fine-very coarse throughout
    Bs1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) crushed sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak fine granular parts to weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-300 millimeter granite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter granite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; many fine-coarse throughout
    Bs2—28 to 54 centimeters (11.0 to 21.3 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) crushed cobbly coarse sandy loam; 62 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter granite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter granite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; many fine and medium throughout
    2BC—54 to 62 centimeters (21.3 to 24.4 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face gravelly loamy coarse sand; 78 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-300 millimeter granite fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter granite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; many fine throughout
    2C1—62 to 98 centimeters (24.4 to 38.6 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face very gravelly loamy coarse sand; 77 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 4 percent clay; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-300 millimeter granite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 600-800-1200 millimeter granite fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter granite fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; few fine throughout
    2C2—98 to 165 centimeters (38.6 to 65.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand; 82 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 4 percent clay; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-300 millimeter granite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 250-375-600 millimeter granite fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter granite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in cut