IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mashek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1996MI103003
  • User Pedon ID: S1996MI103003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 46.1638870
  • Std. Longitude: -87.5393066
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 44N
  • Range: 26W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: Marquette County, Michigan; about 7 miles north of Northland; 1600 feet north and 1600 feet west of the southeast 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-B5—Northland NE, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, 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 - Mashek
  • Classificaton Date - 5/30/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mashek
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/2001 (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
    • 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

    4

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    355

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    838

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    42

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 5/2), dry; fine sandy loam; moderate 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; 2 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary.
    Bs—8 to 43 centimeters (3.1 to 16.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) 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; 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; clear wavy boundary.
    E/B—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; loamy fine sand, 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; 6 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 6 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels; 2 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; gradual wavy boundary.
    2Bt—69 to 97 centimeters (27.2 to 38.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) cobbly fine sandy loam; weak thick platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 26 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 26 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels; 13 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 13 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0; gradual wavy boundary.
    2BC—97 to 109 centimeters (38.2 to 42.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) cobbly fine sandy loam; weak thick platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 13 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 21 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual wavy boundary.
    2Cd—109 to 203 centimeters (42.9 to 79.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) cobbly fine sandy loam; massive; very firm; 1 percent fine distinct cylindrical dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, iron-manganese concretions in matrix; 16 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 17 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2.