IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Porkies
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000MI131004
  • User Pedon ID: S2000MI131004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000MI131004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0429
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13274
  • 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: 46.7589417
  • Std. Longitude: -89.7076492
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Porkies off south boundary road.
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI131—Ontonagon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RLT
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Alfic Oxyaquic Fragiorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Porkies
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Alfic Oxyaquic Fragiorthods
  • PSC - 25 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/19/2000
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/19/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 10039-187
  • 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

    ACSA3

    ARNU2

    ASMA2

    BEAL2

    CLBO3

    COMA7

    DICU

    DRCA11

    MARAR

    MIRE

    QURU

    TSCA

    Acer saccharum

    Aralia nudicaulis

    Aster macrophyllus

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Clintonia borealis

    Convallaria majalis

    Dicentra cucullaria

    Dryopteris carthusiana

    Maianthemum racemosum ssp. racemosum

    Mitchella repens

    Quercus rubra

    Tsuga canadensis

    sugar maple

    wild sarsaparilla

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    yellow birch

    bluebead

    European lily of the valley

    dutchman's breeches

    spinulose woodfern

    feathery false lily of the valley

    partridgeberry

    northern red oak

    eastern hemlock

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

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    71 - 168

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

    ochric epipedon

    spodic horizon

    fragipan

    0—6

    6—33

    71—168

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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

    19

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    180

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (5YR 2.5/1) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 2.5/2) interior, dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; 10 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02469; observed in pit, small
    E—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior, reddish gray (5YR 5/2) interior, dry; gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02470; observed in pit, small
    Bhs—6 to 33 centimeters (2.4 to 13.0 inches); gravelly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; 12 percent by volume 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02471; observed in pit, small
    Bs—33 to 71 centimeters (13.0 to 28.0 inches); gravelly silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine and medium roots; 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 6 percent by volume 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02472; observed in pit, small
    Bx—71 to 168 centimeters (28.0 to 66.1 inches); very gravelly fine sandy loam; massive; hard, very firm; 1.0 medium roots; 2 percent fine faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6); 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02473; observed in pit, small
    C—168 to 183 centimeters (66.1 to 72.0 inches); very gravelly loamy sand, very gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and single grain; firm; 2 percent fine faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6); 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter. Lab sample # 01N02474; observed in pit, small