IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shoepac
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993MI103002
  • User Pedon ID: S1993MI103002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 46.1941681
  • Std. Longitude: -87.1288910
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 44N
  • Range: 23W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: Marquette County, Michigan Subset; about 4 miles east of the village of McFarland; 2300 feet north and 2100 feet east of the southwest corner
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI103—Marquette
  • MLRA: 94B—Michigan Eastern Upper Peninsula Sandy Glacial Deposits
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-RHI—Rhinelander, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI103—Marquette County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46087-B2—McFarland, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Alfic Oxyaquic haplo Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shoepac
  • Classificaton Date - 5/30/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shoepac
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    agric horizon

    spodic horizon

    agric horizon

    argillic horizon

    5—15

    15—58

    58—84

    84—135

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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

    3

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    —

    —

    —

    810

    —

    —

    5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Oa—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (N 2.5/), muck; very friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 6.0 coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; abrupt smooth boundary.
    E—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3), pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 6.0 coarse roots; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 2 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear broken boundary.
    Bs1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 6.0 coarse roots; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 2 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bs2—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) loamy sand; weak thick platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 6.0 coarse roots; 2 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 12 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary.
    E/Bt—58 to 84 centimeters (22.8 to 33.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3) and reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), pinkish gray (5YR 6/2), dry; loamy sand, fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.9 very fine roots throughout and 0.9 medium roots and 0.9 fine roots; 3 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 2 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual irregular boundary.
    Bt—84 to 135 centimeters (33.1 to 53.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.9 very fine roots throughout and 0.9 fine roots; 26 percent distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 26 percent distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels; 2 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 7 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual wavy boundary.
    C—135 to 203 centimeters (53.1 to 79.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; massive; friable; 0.9 very fine roots throughout and 0.9 fine roots; 4 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 22 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6.