IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Liminga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1966MI133002
  • User Pedon ID: S1966MI133002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1966MI133002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1974
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36132
  • User Project ID: 22656
  • Project Name: Osceola County, Michigan - Out-of-date
  • 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: 44.1402833
  • Std. Longitude: -85.4851583
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20 North
  • Range: 10 West
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4, SE 1/4, NE 1/4
  • Location Description: Burdell Township. 200 feet into woods
  • Map Unit: WaB—Wallace sand, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI133—Osceola
  • MLRA: 94A—Northern Michigan Sandy Highlands
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FLI—Flint, Michigan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI133—Osceola County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44085-B4—Cadillac South, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Hermann L. Weber, Robert W. Johnson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, isotic, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Liminga
  • PSC - 33 to 108 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2018
  • Classifier - Eric S. Gano
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kalkaska
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, mixed, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/4/1966
  • Classifier - Hermann L. Weber
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/4/1966 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Donald P. Franzmeier
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    POTR5

    PTAQ

    Acer rubrum

    Populus tremuloides

    Pteridium aquilinum

    red maple

    quaking aspen

    western brackenfern

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    0—41

    8—41

    41—56

    —41—

    —33—

    —15—
    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

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    378

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    90

    828

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    102

    5.9

    18.1

    -6.7

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    201176

    Cadillac Wexford County AP

    COOP
    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) crushed sand; single grain; loose; many (10.0) roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A15693; moist when described;
    Oa—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); black (N 2.5/), highly decomposed plant material; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; many (10.0) roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A15694; moist when described;
    E1—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) sand; weak medium granular structure; very friable; few (0.5) roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A15695; moist when described;
    E2—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); gray (10YR 6/1), light gray (10YR 7/1), dry; sand; weak medium and coarse granular structure; very friable; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A15696; moist when described;
    Bh—41 to 46 centimeters (16.1 to 18.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) and dark reddish brown (5YR 2.5/2) sand; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; many (10.0) roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A15697; moist when described;
    Bhs—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) fine sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; few (0.5) roots; fragments; patches of reddish brown (5YR 4/4); very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A15698; moist when described;
    Bs—56 to 77 centimeters (22.0 to 30.3 inches); 90 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 10 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) fine sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A15699; moist when described;
    BC—77 to 102 centimeters (30.3 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sand; weak coarse granular structure; very friable; 1 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A15700; moist when described;
    C1—102 to 168 centimeters (40.2 to 66.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and very pale brown (10YR 7/4) fine sand; single grain; loose; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A15701; moist when described;
    C2—168 to 226 centimeters (66.1 to 89.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine sand; single grain; loose; 2 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A15702; moist when described;
    C3—226 to 310 centimeters (89.0 to 122.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sand; single grain; loose; 2 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter. Lab sample # 40A15703; moist when described;