IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Northland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1996MI103002
  • User Pedon ID: S1996MI103002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 46.0156937
  • Std. Longitude: -87.5517502
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 42N
  • Range: 26W
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: Marquette County, Michigan; about 4 miles southeast of Northland; 900 feet east and 250 feet north 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-A5—Northland, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Northland
  • Classificaton Date - 5/30/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Northland
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till and/or gravelly outwash
  • Landform: stream terrace, outwash plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/2005 (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

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    8—13

    20—56

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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

    2

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    308

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    838

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    5

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    Oa—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); black (N 2.5/), muck; moderate very fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 6.0 coarse roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt wavy boundary.
    E—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2), dry; loamy fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 4 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear irregular boundary.
    Bw—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 4 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear broken boundary.
    Bt1—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 26 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 26 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; 6 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear irregular boundary.
    2Bt2—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) very gravelly loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 26 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; 50 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear irregular boundary.
    2BC—56 to 97 centimeters (22.0 to 38.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) very gravelly sand; single grain; loose; 0.9 very fine roots throughout and 0.9 fine roots; 1 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 50 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear irregular boundary.
    2C—97 to 203 centimeters (38.2 to 79.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) very gravelly sand; single grain; loose; 3 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 10 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 50 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2.