IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dishno
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1996MI103001
  • User Pedon ID: S1996MI103001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • 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: 46.5942497
  • Std. Longitude: -87.9377747
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 49N
  • Range: 29W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: Marquette County, Michigan; about 5.5 miles north of Champion; 583 feet north and 1832 feet east of the southwest corner
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI103—Marquette
  • MLRA: 93B—Superior Stony and Rocky Loamy Plains and Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI103—Marquette County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46087-E8—Champion, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Oxyaquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dishno
  • Classificaton Date - 2/6/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dishno
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy eolian deposits and/or sandy and gravelly till
  • Landform: moraine
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: gneiss at 117cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/2004 (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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    lithic contact

    3—23

    8—23

    23—56

    117—

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    —-

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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

    6

    —

    —

    536

    —

    902

    —

    —

    4

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); mucky peat; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), reddish gray (5YR 5/2), dry; cobbly silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 6.0 coarse roots; 0.9 very fine vesicular pores; 1 percent by volume subrounded 600-?-? millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded 250-?-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 9 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; clear wavy boundary.
    E—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); reddish gray (5YR 5/2), light gray (5YR 7/1), dry; cobbly silt loam; weak medium platy parts to weak very 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; 0.9 very fine vesicular pores; 1 percent by volume subrounded 600-?-? millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded 250-?-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 9 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Bhs—23 to 25 centimeters (9.1 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) cobbly loam; 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; 0.9 very fine vesicular pores; 1 percent by volume subrounded 600-?-? millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded 250-?-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 7 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt broken boundary.
    Bs1—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) cobbly fine sandy loam; 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; 0.9 very fine vesicular pores; 1 percent by volume subrounded 600-?-? millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded 250-?-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 7 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary.
    Bs2—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) cobbly loamy sand; weak medium platy structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 2.0 very fine vesicular pores; 1 percent by volume subrounded 600-?-? millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded 250-?-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 7 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt broken boundary.
    2BC—56 to 74 centimeters (22.0 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) very stony loamy sand; massive; friable; 0.9 very fine roots throughout and 0.9 medium roots and 0.9 fine roots; 0.9 very fine vesicular pores; 3 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 5 percent by volume subangular 600-?-? millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume subrounded 250-?-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 13 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary.
    2C—74 to 117 centimeters (29.1 to 46.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) very stony loamy sand; massive; friable; 0.9 very fine roots throughout and 0.9 medium roots and 0.9 fine roots; 0.9 very fine vesicular pores; silt coats on rock fragments; 1 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 5 percent by volume subrounded 600-?-? millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume subrounded 250-?-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 13 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 849843; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 849843
    3R—117 centimeters (46.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) bedrock; 21 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron around rock fragments; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3.