IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elcajon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1996MI007002
  • User Pedon ID: S1996MI007002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0445
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10127
  • Print Date: 11/25/2024

    • 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: 45.1698083
  • Std. Longitude: -83.4972639
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 2600 feet south and 430 feet west of the northeast corner
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI007—Alpena
  • MLRA: 94A—Northern Michigan Sandy Highlands
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI007—Alpena County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45083-B4—Long Lake East, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Williams, B. Frazer.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, frigid Aquic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elcajon
  • PSC - 30 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elcajon
  • Classificaton Date - 10/11/1996
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: karstland
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Bedrock: limestone, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/11/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 13
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    glossic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    15—30

    30—73

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    1

    —

    —

    229

    —

    225

    721

    —

    124

    6.2

    18.2

    -6.2

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    200164

    Alpena County Regional AP

    COOP
    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) exterior and dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) crushed, brown (7.5YR 5/2), dry; loam; weak very fine and fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P02630
    E/B—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); 40 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; clay loam; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02631. Few fine greenish gray (5GY 5/1) iron depletions.
    E/B—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); 60 percent brown (7.5YR 5/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 fine moderate-continuity vesicular pores; 3 percent fine yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # 97P02631
    Bt—30 to 74 centimeters (11.8 to 29.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; sandy clay loam; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular and 3.0 fine moderate-continuity vesicular pores; 10 percent distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 3 percent fine yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 6 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 8 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02632. continuous - phpvsfiid 183213; continuous - phpvsfiid 183213
    Cr—74 to 93 centimeters (29.1 to 36.6 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) very flaggy loam; 3.0 very fine and fine roots in cracks; 50 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Weathered limestone. Not sampled.
    R—93 centimeters (36.6 inches); fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Not sampled. Fractured karst limestone - 6 inch cracks, one continuous across the bottom of the pit. Cracks measured 84 inches deep but are deeper because air circulation can be felt. Many fossil reef organisms - crinoids, hexagonaria, etc.