IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amasa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999MI053025
  • User Pedon ID: S1999MI053025
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0454
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15054
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 46.5671654
  • Std. Longitude: -90.1481628
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI053—Gogebic
  • MLRA: 93—Superior Stony and Rocky Loamy Plains and Hills
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI609—Gogebic County Area, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: wep,ds
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 25
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Amasa
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/18/2021
  • Classifier - Dan Wing
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Amasa
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/16/1999
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/16/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 4901-131
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    strongly contrasting textural stratification

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    81 - 203

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    spodic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—15

    15—81

    81—

    —15—

    —66—

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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

    5

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    290

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) broken face silt loam; strong medium granular structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02620; observed in trench
    Bhs—15 to 31 centimeters (5.9 to 12.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) broken face very fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02621; observed in trench
    Bs1—31 to 46 centimeters (12.2 to 18.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face very fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02622; observed in trench
    Bs2—46 to 81 centimeters (18.1 to 31.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face very gravelly fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02623; observed in trench
    2C1—81 to 130 centimeters (31.9 to 51.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) exterior extremely gravelly coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose; 1.0 very fine roots around fragments and 1.0 fine roots around fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02624; observed in trench
    2C2—130 to 203 centimeters (51.2 to 79.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) exterior extremely gravelly coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 250-?-920 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 60 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 01N02625; observed in trench