IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Greenstone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999mi131006
  • User Pedon ID: S1999MI131006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1999mi131006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0278
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11786
  • 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: 46.8158340
  • Std. Longitude: -89.5333328
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 108A—GREENSTONE SILT LOAM, 0 TO 3 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Michigan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI612—Ontonagon County Area, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: WA, JSE
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid, shallow Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Greenstone
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid, shallow Aquic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 13 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1999
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: sandstone, unspecified at 145cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 4911-23
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • 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

    ACRU

    ACSA2

    CORYL

    FRPE

    GALIU

    IMCA

    POTRT

    PTERI

    RUFL

    TRIEN

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharinum

    Corylus

    Fraxinus pennsylvanica

    Galium

    Impatiens capensis

    Populus tremula ssp. tremuloides

    Pteridium

    Rubus flagellaris

    Trientalis

    red maple

    silver maple

    hazelnut

    green ash

    bedstraw

    jewelweed

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    brackenfern

    northern dewberry

    starflower

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

    cambic horizon

    13—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

    1

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    350

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    Oi—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); N 2.5/1 (N 2.5/1) broken face slightly decomposed plant material; very friable; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-100-250 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) broken face, reddish brown (5YR 5/4) broken face, dry; silty clay loam; 12 percent sand; 57 percent silt; 32 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 11.0 very coarse roots and 11.0 medium roots and 11.0 fine roots and 11.0 coarse roots; 15 percent faint dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 35 percent faint dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-100-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-45-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-4-5 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P01964; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) broken face very fine sandy loam; 48 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak thick platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very coarse roots and 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 3 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 5 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, sand coats on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine distinct irregular yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 5 percent medium prominent irregular yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-100-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-5 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P01965; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) broken face loam; 39 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 17 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 15 percent faint reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels and 35 percent faint reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent medium distinct irregular yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent fine distinct irregular yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-100-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P01966; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cr—66 to 145 centimeters (26.0 to 57.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 2.5/4) broken face bedrock; 28 percent sand; 63 percent silt; 10 percent clay; massive; extremely firm; 5.0 fine roots in cracks; 70 percent faint dark reddish brown (2.5YR 2.5/4), moist, clay films on rock fragments; 2 percent medium prominent irregular yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent fine prominent irregular yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-100-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat well rounded extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 70 percent by volume nonflat well rounded 2-?-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P01967; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—145 centimeters (57.1 inches); bedrock; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-100-250 millimeter mixed fragments.; observed in pit, small