IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Monadnock
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S09ME021016.Monadnock
  • User Pedon ID: S09ME021016.Monadnock
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S09ME021016.Monadnock
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0332
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 28256
  • 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: 45.9170278
  • Std. Longitude: -69.1370556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3
  • Range: 11
  • Location Description: Telos road right on South end of Harrington Lake
  • Map Unit: 47E—Monadnock-Becket-Rawsonville association, 15 to 45 percent slopes, very bouldery
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME021—Piscataquis
  • MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains
  • 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-H2—Harrington Lake, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T.Jenkins, N.Butler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, isotic over mixed, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Monadnock
  • PSC - 25 to 100 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 - 8/20/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: supraglacial meltout till derived from igneous and metamorphic rock
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 3.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 250- to 600-millimeter granite, 5.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 600- to 2400-millimeter granite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/20/2009 (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 - snow
  • Current Air Temp - 29
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABBA

    ACSA3

    BEAL2

    FAGR

    PIRU

    Abies balsamea

    Acer saccharum

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Fagus grandifolia

    Picea rubens

    balsam fir

    sugar maple

    yellow birch

    American beech

    red spruce

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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

    cambic horizon

    strongly contrasting particle size class

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—10

    0—2

    2—6

    6—10

    6—10

    10—52

    52—62

    62—165

    62—165

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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

    45

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    378

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    45

    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 3/3) moderately decomposed plant material; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; Many Very Fine Throughout
    Oa—2 to 6 centimeters (0.8 to 2.4 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) highly decomposed plant material; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.6, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut
    E—6 to 10 centimeters (2.4 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) gravelly silt loam; 31 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak very fine granular, and weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 18 percent by volume , 27 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; extremely acid, pH 3.8, pH meter; abrupt broken boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; Many Very Fine-Coarse Throughout
    Bhs—10 to 13 centimeters (3.9 to 5.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) gravelly sandy loam; 54 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 8 percent clay; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-300 millimeter mixed fragments and 25 percent by volume , 37 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; Many Very Fine-Coarse Throughout
    Bs1—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; 52 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-152-300 millimeter mixed fragments and 27 percent by volume , 39 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; Many Very Fine-Coarse Throughout
    Bs2—25 to 52 centimeters (9.8 to 20.5 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) gravelly coarse sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-300 millimeter mixed fragments and 29 percent by volume , 42 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; Many Fine-Coarse Throughout
    BC—52 to 62 centimeters (20.5 to 24.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly loamy coarse sand; 73 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 3 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-300 millimeter mixed fragments and 29 percent by volume , 43 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; Many Fine-Coarse Throughout
    2C1—62 to 110 centimeters (24.4 to 43.3 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand; 84 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 2 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-300 millimeter mixed fragments and 60 percent by volume , 74 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; Many Very Fine-Fine Throughout
    2C2—110 to 165 centimeters (43.3 to 65.0 inches); 80 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and 20 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand; 84 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 2 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 9 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 600-800-1200 millimeter mixed fragments and 9 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-300 millimeter mixed fragments and 9 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in cut. Roots; Common Fine Throughout