IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nordhouse
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999MI101001
  • User Pedon ID: S1999MI101001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1999MI101001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0369
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11228
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 44.2167389
  • Std. Longitude: -86.2546111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23N
  • Range: 16W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 350 feet south and 2850 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Onekama township.
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI101—Manistee
  • MLRA: 96—Northwestern Michigan Fruit Belt
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI101—Manistee County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44086-D2—Bear Lake, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Erik Johnson, Rick Neilson, Lyle Linsemier
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic, uncoated Spodic Quartzipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nordhouse
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crystalia
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, mesic Typic Udipsamment
  • Classificaton Date - 1/29/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: dune
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/29/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 4881-11
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACSA3

    BEPA

    TSCA

    TSUGA

    Acer saccharum

    Betula papyrifera

    Tsuga canadensis

    Tsuga

    sugar maple

    paper birch

    eastern hemlock

    hemlock

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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

    12

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    847

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    146

    8.1

    19.4

    -3.7

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    205065

    Manistee 3SE

    COOP
    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1), dark gray (7.5YR 4/1), dry; sand; weak very fine and fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine to coarse roots; fragments; noneffervescent; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.
    E—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), light gray (7.5YR 7/1), dry; sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 21.0 fine to coarse roots; fragments; noneffervescent; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P02004
    Bs—28 to 102 centimeters (11.0 to 40.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and brown (7.5YR 5/4) sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P02005
    C1—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sand; single grain; loose; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P02006
    C2—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog.