IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Colonel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S09ME021014.Colonel
  • User Pedon ID: S09ME021014.Colonel
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S09ME021014.Colonel
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0330
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 28254
  • 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: 45.4241111
  • Std. Longitude: -69.0587778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5
  • Range: 9
  • Location Description: First road to the right of the John Oulette Rd.
  • Map Unit: 54B—Brayton-Colonel-Dixfield association, 0 to 8 percent slopes, extremely stony
  • 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: N.Butler, C.Bickford
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid, shallow Aquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Colonel
  • PSC - 28 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/9/2015
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Colonel
  • Classificaton Date - 11/2/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy lodgment till derived from granite and gneiss
  • Landform: drumlinoid ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: dip
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 3.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 250- to 600-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/2/2009 (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 - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 4
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABBA

    ACSA3

    BEAL2

    BEPA

    FAGR

    ONSE

    PIRU

    PIST

    Abies balsamea

    Acer saccharum

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Betula papyrifera

    Fagus grandifolia

    Onoclea sensibilis

    Picea rubens

    Pinus strobus

    balsam fir

    sugar maple

    yellow birch

    paper birch

    American beech

    sensitive fern

    red spruce

    eastern white pine

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

    densic material

    moderately coherent

    48 - 165

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

    ochric epipedon

    hemic soil materials

    albic horizon

    albic materials

    spodic horizon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    redox concentrations

    densic contact

    densic materials

    0—11

    0—3

    3—11

    3—11

    11—36

    36—48

    36—165

    36—165

    36—165

    48—165

    48—165

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    11/2/2009

    30

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    32
    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

    4

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    171.4

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    15

    905

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    105

    3.1

    16.4

    0.8

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    171472

    Clayton Lake

    US Official
    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) moderately decomposed plant material; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described;
    E—3 to 11 centimeters (1.2 to 4.3 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) silt loam; 35 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 6 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume , 14 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-5-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described;. Roots; common very fine-fine throughout
    Bs—11 to 36 centimeters (4.3 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) gravelly loam; 47 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 23 percent by volume , 34 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-15-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described;. Roots; common very fine-fine throughout and few medium throughout
    BC—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) very gravelly sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent fine faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron throughout and 5 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 45 percent by volume , 59 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described;
    Cd—48 to 165 centimeters (18.9 to 65.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) very gravelly coarse sandy loam; 64 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 69 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 5 percent fine faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) masses of reduced iron throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 40 percent by volume , 55 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter.; moist when described;