SOILS OF THE WOODSTOCK - FLORENCEVILLE AREA CARLETON COUNTY, NEW BRUNSWICK VOLUME 1 New Brunswick Soil Survey Report No. 14 Agriculture I 9 I Canada Research Branch Y L SOILS OF THE WOODSTOCK - FLORENCEVILLE AREA - CARLETON COUNTY, NEW BRUNSWICK :- VOLUME 1 New Brunswick Soi1 Survey Report No. 14 Sherif H. Fahmy and Herbert W. Rees Land Resource Research Centre Fredericton, New Brunswick LRRC Contribution No. 88-85 Research Branch Agriculture Canada 1989 - +,.’ > \ ERRATA - Please correct the following errors: 1. in table 7 pages 19 and 25 under drainage replace a11“NS” by “U”, 2. on the bottom of pages 18 to 31 (i.e.,: key to table) under - Drainage, Deer, Ripping add: “S = Severe to very severe limitation” and “U = Unsuitable”, - Farm Roads replace: “S = Severe to very severe limitation” by “S = Suitable” ! J ii Copies of tlis report are available froc Agriculture Canada LRRC, Soil Survey Unit P.O. Box 20280 Fredericton Research Station Fredericton, N.B. E3B 427 New Brunswick Department of Agriculture P.O. Box 6OW Fredericton, N.B. E3B 5Hl Caver photograph: Carleton Soi1 Landscape (Photo: Karel Michalica, NBDA) . L 111 -Listoffigunsandtabks. ................................................................................................................................................................. iv AckIKnvledgments. ............................................................................................................................................................................... V S- .............................................................................................................................................................................................. vl w Introduction. .. .. ............. 1 General descripthl of ti surveyed area. ...................................................................................................................................... 2 Location and extent .................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Climate ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Topography and drainage ......................................................................................................................................................... 2 L Geology ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 4 Bedrock geology .......................................................................................................................................................... 4 Surficial geology ........................................................................................................................................................... ‘4 ? Vegetation ................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 soa development alld classtitioa ................................................................................................................................................. 5 Soil development ......................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Soi1 classification ......................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Survey and mappiag me- ........................................................................................................................................................... 6 Sutvey procedure ........................................................................................................................................................................ 6 <# Mapping units .............................................................................................................................................................................. 6 soil associations ................................................................................................................................................................................ 9 - Soils developed in non-compact (ablation) tiil ..................................................................................................................... 9 Juniper association .................................................................................................................................................... 9 Monquart association ................................................................................................................................................ 9 Thibault association ................................................................................................................................................... 9 --LA Soils developed in compacted (lodgment) till ....................................................................................................................... 9 Carleton association .................................................................................................................................................. 9 Holmesvllle association ............................................................................................................................................. 10 Violette association ......................................... ..- ...................................................................................................... 10 ...................................................................................................................................................... 10 . Plnder association Land types developed in organic deposits.. ........................................................................................................................... 11 Bog .............................................................................................................................................................................. 11 Fen .............................................................................................................................................................................. 11 Swamp ......................................................................................................................................................................... 11 _ Interpretation of soil map tits for varions uses........................................................................................................................ 12 Interpretation of soi1 map units for agriculture ................................................................................................................... 12 Interpretation for trop production ......................................................................................................................... 12 Interpretation for agricultural engineering uses.................................................................................................... 12 - Interpretation of soi1 map units for forestry use ................................................................................................................. 14 Interpretation for tree production.. ........................................................................................................................ 14 16 - List of referem ............................................................................................................................................................................. Appe*l ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 17 Soil map unit interpretations for selected uses.................................................................................................................... 17 Appenda IL ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 33 Morphological descriptions and analyses for soi1 associations ............................................................................................. 33 iv LIST OF FIGURES, TABLES, AND MAPS n;igures J Figure 1. Woodstock-Florenceville survey area ....................................................................................................................... 2 Figure 2. Climatic regions of New Brunswick.. ....................................................................................................................... 2 ’ Figure 3. B&ock geology of the surveyed area.. ................................................................................................................... 4 ,\J Tables Table 1. Climatic data summary ................................................................................................................................................ Table 2. Percentage frequencies of weekly precipitation.. ....................................................................................................