IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): McMaster
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: H99MI003-2
  • User Pedon ID: S1999MI003002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0945
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 12439
  • 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: 46.2750778
  • Std. Longitude: -86.9887543
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 45N
  • Range: 21W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 600 feet E and 150 feet S of NW corner
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI003—Alger
  • MLRA: 94B—Michigan Eastern Upper Peninsula Sandy Glacial Deposits

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: CS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, active, acid, frigid Oxyaquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - McMaster
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, active, acid, frigid Oxyaquic Haplorthods
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/25/1999
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy eolian deposits over sandy and gravelly outwash
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/25/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 23SW
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Plant Association Name: avo
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • 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

    10—20

    20—28

    —10—

    —8—
    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

    —

    —

    291

    —

    780

    —

    123

    5

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    Oa—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (N 2.5/0) crushed muck; moderate fine granular structure; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments, by hcl, unspecified; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) broken face, dark gray (7.5YR 4/1) crushed, dry; cobbly fine sandy loam; 8 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 15 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 17 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments, by hcl, unspecified; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P05682; observed in pit, small
    E—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) broken face, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) crushed, dry; cobbly fine sandy loam; 6 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 15 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 17 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments, by hcl, unspecified; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P05683; observed in pit, small
    2Bhs—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) broken face cobbly fine sandy loam; 10 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 17 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments, by hcl, unspecified; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P05684; observed in pit, small
    2Bs—28 to 61 centimeters (11.0 to 24.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face very gravelly fine sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume subrounded 250-?-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 12 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments, by hcl, unspecified; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P05685; observed in pit, small. Contains many sedimentary pieces of weathered sandstone.
    2BC—61 to 99 centimeters (24.0 to 39.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face very gravelly coarse sand; 1 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very rapid permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume subrounded 250-?-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P05686; observed in pit, small
    2C—99 to 203 centimeters (39.0 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face very gravelly coarse sand; 1 percent clay; structureless single grain; very rapid permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; 2 percent by volume subrounded 250-?-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 21 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter. Lab sample # 00P05687; observed in pit, small