IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Michigamme
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MI013007
  • User Pedon ID: 78MI013007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0029
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46213
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 46.4852791
  • Std. Longitude: -88.5102768
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 47N
  • Range: 34W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 SW 1/4 NW 1/4
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI013—Baraga

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. P. Whiteside and N. W. Stroesenreuther
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Michigamme
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed Haplorthox
  • PSC - 25 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1978
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: plain
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    spodic horizon

    0—11

    12—50

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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

    4

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    1A1—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2) interior silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 fine roots; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P00139. many fine roots
    1A2—4 to 11 centimeters (1.6 to 4.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 fine roots; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P00140. many fine roots
    1B21h—11 to 18 centimeters (4.3 to 7.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P00141. many fine and medium roots
    1B22ir—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P00142. many fine and medium roots
    1B23ir—36 to 50 centimeters (14.2 to 19.7 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 12 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P00143. common fine roots
    1B24—50 to 60 centimeters (19.7 to 23.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior cobbly fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 35 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 38 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 79P00144. few fine roots
    2A'2x—60 to 79 centimeters (23.6 to 31.1 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3) interior and 50 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior sandy loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 18 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P00145. few fine roots
    3R—79 to 90 centimeters (31.1 to 35.4 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled. 1 cm coating weak red (2.5YR 5/2) firm loam on top of rock.