IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kenduskeag

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: S11ME019007

User Pedon ID: S11ME019007

Vegetation Plot ID: S11ME019007

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes

Lab Pedon # - 12N7815

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50908

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: 45.0056667

Std. Longitude: -68.9928611

Datum: WGS84

Location Description: Site is on Brenda Hall's Property on the Bradford Quad (SW quarter-quad)

Map Unit: WKB—Wassookeag-Kenduskeag complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes, very stony

Country: US—United States

State: Maine

County: ME019—Penobscot

MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part

Regional Office: NE—Northeast

MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-DFX—Dover-Foxcroft, Maine

Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME612—Penobscot County, Maine, Southern Part

7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45068-A8—Bradford, Maine

PEDON

Describers Name: David Turcotte

Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, semiactive, frigid Aquic Dystric Eutrudepts

Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct

Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series

Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory

Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Kenduskeag

PSC - 27 to 100 cm.

Classificaton Date - 4/8/2016

Classifier - SSOL

Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition

Moisture Class - udic

Moisture Subclass - aquic

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Kenduskeag

Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Aquic Dystric Eutrudepts

Taxon Kind - series

PSC - 27 to 100 cm.

Classificaton Date - 9/27/2011

Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition

Moisture Class - aquic

Moisture SUBClass - udic

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: subglacial till

Landform: till plain

Hill Slope Profile: footslope

Slope Complexity: simple

Slope Shape Across: linear

Slope Shape Down: linear

Drainage Class: somewhat poorly

Flooding: none flooding

Ponding: none ponding

Bedrock: strongly coherent metasiltstone at 200cm

Geology: Waterville formation.

Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent 250- to 600-millimeter

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 9/27/2011 (actual site observation date)

Air Photo ID: 9200-129

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

Current Weather - sunny

Current Air Temp - 23

Vegetation Plot Plants
Plant Symbol	Scientific Name	National Vernacular Name	Plant Type Group	Canopy Cover %	Vegetation Stata Level
BEPA FRAM2 OSVI POBA2 VICA ACRU ACSA3 DRYOP POTEN RUBUS SMAR	Betula papyrifera Fraxinus americana Ostrya virginiana Populus balsamifera Viburnum cassinoides Acer rubrum Acer saccharum Dryopteris Potentilla Rubus Smilax aristolochiifolia	paper birch white ash hophornbeam balsam poplar — red maple sugar maple woodfern cinquefoil blackberry sarsaparilla	— — — — — — — — — — —	— — — — — — — — — — —	overstory overstory overstory overstory overstory understory understory understory understory understory understory

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
ochric epipedon cambic horizon redox concentrations redox depletions with chroma 2 or less lithic contact	0—27 27—68 27—157 27—157 157—165	—- —- —- —- —-

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
3	—	—	90	—	90	1035	—	130	6	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

A1—0 to 21 centimeters (0.0 to 8.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) broken face, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; 34 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak medium and coarse granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-50-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small

A2—21 to 27 centimeters (8.3 to 10.6 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; 34 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak medium granular, and weak coarse granular structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 2 percent by volume subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume flat strongly coherent cemented 2-50-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Bw1—27 to 50 centimeters (10.6 to 19.7 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) broken face silt loam; 40 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 10 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent fine prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 10 percent medium distinct gray (5Y 6/1), moist, iron depletions throughout and 15 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-50-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Bw2—50 to 68 centimeters (19.7 to 26.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face loam; 46 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 8 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent medium distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 10 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-50-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small

BC—68 to 99 centimeters (26.8 to 39.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face channery loam; 43 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 8 percent clay; moderate coarse and very coarse prismatic parts to weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3 percent fine prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron between peds and 15 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron between peds and 20 percent medium and coarse distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions between peds; 5 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-50-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume flat angular weakly coherent cemented 2-30-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small

C—99 to 165 centimeters (39.0 to 65.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face parachannery silt loam; 44 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 6 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent medium and coarse faint light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 10 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume flat angular weakly coherent cemented 2-30-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; reduced monosulfides present; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter.; wet when described; observed in pit, small