IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arcadian
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000MI131002
  • User Pedon ID: S2000MI131002
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 9
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0427
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13272
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 51N
  • Range: 42W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • Location Description: Porcupine State Park
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI131—Ontonagon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: WA
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, frigid Lithic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arcadian
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, frigid Lithic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 0 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/31/2000
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 25.00 percent 250- to 600-millimeter
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—8

    8—33

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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

    27

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) interior very gravelly silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; 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 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N02458; observed in pit, small
    Bhs1—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior very gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 5.0 very fine to coarse roots; 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 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02459; observed in pit, small
    Bhs2—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior very gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 1.0 very fine to coarse roots; 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 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02460; observed in pit, small
    R—33 centimeters (13.0 inches); 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, pH meter.; observed in pit, small