IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Flintsteel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000MI131003
  • User Pedon ID: S2000MI131003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000MI131003
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 5
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0428
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13273
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 46.8055573
  • Std. Longitude: -89.6955566
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park - just off of the Government Peak Trail
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI131—Ontonagon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RFT, JSE
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Oxyaquic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Flintsteel
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Oxyaquic Glossudalfs
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/2/2000
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy basal till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/2/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 10039-187
  • 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

    ABBA

    ACSA3

    ALTR3

    BEAL2

    CAREX

    CLBO3

    COMA7

    DICU

    DRCA11

    FRAM2

    LOCA7

    MARAR

    TSCA

    Abies balsamea

    Acer saccharum

    Allium tricoccum

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Carex

    Clintonia borealis

    Convallaria majalis

    Dicentra cucullaria

    Dryopteris carthusiana

    Fraxinus americana

    Lonicera canadensis

    Maianthemum racemosum ssp. racemosum

    Tsuga canadensis

    balsam fir

    sugar maple

    ramp

    yellow birch

    sedge

    bluebead

    European lily of the valley

    dutchman's breeches

    spinulose woodfern

    white ash

    American fly honeysuckle

    feathery false lily of the valley

    eastern hemlock

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

    cambic horizon

    spodic horizon

    glossic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—10

    10—30

    30—36

    36—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

    8

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    335

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, dark gray (7.5YR 4/1) interior, dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine to coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.6, pH meter; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 01N02461; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) interior, pinkish gray (5YR 6/2) interior, dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine to coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 01N02462; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bhs—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine to coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02463; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02464; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E/B—30 to 36 centimeters (11.8 to 14.2 inches); 60 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and 40 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior silt loam, silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 9.0 fine roots; 5 percent prominent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02465; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 204261; patchy - phpvsfiid 204261
    Bt1—36 to 74 centimeters (14.2 to 29.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; strong coarse subangular blocky parts to weak thin platy structure; friable; 15 percent prominent brown (7.5YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 40 percent prominent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02466; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 204262; patchy - phpvsfiid 204263; patchy - phpvsfiid 204262; patchy - phpvsfiid 204263
    Bt2—74 to 109 centimeters (29.1 to 42.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; strong very thin platy structure; very firm; 50 percent prominent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint red (2.5YR 4/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 3 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02467; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 204264; patchy - phpvsfiid 204264
    Bt3—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior very gravelly clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent prominent light red (2.5YR 6/6), moist, sand coats on vertical faces of peds and 30 percent distinct dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 50 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments, pH meter. Lab sample # 01N02468; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 204265; patchy - phpvsfiid 204266; patchy - phpvsfiid 204265; patchy - phpvsfiid 204266