IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Auger
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997MI095036
  • User Pedon ID: S1997MI095036
  • 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: 46.5511093
  • Std. Longitude: -85.3438263
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 48N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: Luce County, Michigan; 650 feet north of the southeast corner
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI095—Luce
  • MLRA: 94B—Michigan Eastern Upper Peninsula Sandy Glacial Deposits
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-RHI—Rhinelander, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI095—Luce County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46085-E3—Betsy Lake South, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, frigid Oxyaquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Auger
  • Classificaton Date - 5/30/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Auger
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy glaciolacustrine deposits
  • Landform: lake plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/2006 (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

    spodic horizon

    5—13

    13—38

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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

    —

    —

    229

    —

    810

    —

    —

    6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); mucky peat; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; abrupt wavy boundary.
    E—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots; 3 percent by volume charcoal fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; abrupt irregular boundary.
    Bhs—13 to 15 centimeters (5.1 to 5.9 inches); black (5YR 2.5/1) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots throughout and 6.0 coarse roots; 1 percent by volume charcoal fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; abrupt irregular boundary.
    Bs1—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots throughout and 6.0 coarse roots; 1 percent by volume charcoal fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; clear irregular boundary.
    Bs2—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary.
    BC—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) very fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary.
    C1—64 to 160 centimeters (25.2 to 63.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and brown (7.5YR 5/4) stratified stratified silt loam to silt; weak thick platy structure; friable; 3 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary.
    C1—160 to 203 centimeters (63.0 to 79.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) and brown (7.5YR 5/4) silt; weak thick platy structure; friable; 3 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent coarse prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent coarse prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8.