IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Loggerhead
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000MI131001
  • User Pedon ID: S2000MI131001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000MI131001
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 6
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0426
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13271
  • Print Date: 2/2/2025

    • 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: 46.8202744
  • Std. Longitude: -89.6567612
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Porcupine Mountains State park
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI131—Ontonagon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RFT, JSE
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Alfic Oxyaquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Loggerhead
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Alfic Oxyaquic Haplorthods
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/31/2000
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy colluvium and/or loamy till
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/31/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 4901-61
  • 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

    ACSA2

    BEAL2

    TSUGA

    Acer saccharinum

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Tsuga

    silver maple

    yellow birch

    hemlock

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

    ochric epipedon

    spodic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—13

    13—81

    81—152

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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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    160

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) interior fine sandy loam; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine to coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02452; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs1—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine to coarse roots; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02453; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs2—33 to 69 centimeters (13.0 to 27.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior fine sandy loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 4 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02454; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs3—69 to 81 centimeters (27.2 to 31.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior fine sandy loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 fine roots; 25 percent fine faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02455; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bt1—81 to 94 centimeters (31.9 to 37.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior loam; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots; 15 percent faint dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent fine prominent brown (10YR 5/3) masses of reduced iron; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02456; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 204271; patchy - phpvsfiid 204271
    2Bt2—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent faint red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent fine prominent brown (10YR 5/3) masses of reduced iron; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter. Lab sample # 01N02457; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 204270; patchy - phpvsfiid 204270