IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Porkies
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000MI131007
  • User Pedon ID: S2000MI131007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000MI131007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0431
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13276
  • Print Date: 11/25/2024

    • 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: 46.8180542
  • Std. Longitude: -89.6887054
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 51N
  • Range: 42W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 of NW 1/4
  • Location Description: Pedon is about 300 feet south of M107 and about 2 miles west of the ski hill in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park.
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI131—Ontonagon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: WA
  • 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 #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Porkies
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Alfic Oxyaquic Fragiorthods
  • PSC - 25 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/5/2000
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy basal till
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat rounded 250- to 600-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/5/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 10039-185
  • 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

    ACSA3

    ARNU2

    ASMA2

    CAREX

    CLBO3

    DRCA11

    LOCA7

    MACA4

    OSCL

    OSVI

    RUPA

    THOC2

    TIAM

    TSCA

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharum

    Aralia nudicaulis

    Aster macrophyllus

    Carex

    Clintonia borealis

    Dryopteris carthusiana

    Lonicera canadensis

    Maianthemum canadense

    Osmorhiza claytonii

    Ostrya virginiana

    Rubus parviflorus

    Thuja occidentalis

    Tilia americana

    Tsuga canadensis

    red maple

    sugar maple

    wild sarsaparilla

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    sedge

    bluebead

    spinulose woodfern

    American fly honeysuckle

    Canada mayflower

    Clayton's sweetroot

    hophornbeam

    thimbleberry

    arborvitae

    American basswood

    eastern hemlock

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

    fragipan

    moderately coherent

    69 - 107

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

    ochric epipedon

    spodic horizon

    glossic horizon

    fragic soil properties

    0—13

    13—56

    56—107

    69—107

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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

    15

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    300

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    335

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) interior very cobbly fine sandy loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; 25 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N02481; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bhs—13 to 56 centimeters (5.1 to 22.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior very cobbly sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 very fine to coarse roots; 20 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02482; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E/B—56 to 69 centimeters (22.0 to 27.2 inches); 80 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior and 20 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, 80 percent pink (5YR 7/3) interior, dry; very gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine and medium roots; 5 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent coarse distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 8 percent coarse distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 35 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02483; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 204274; patchy - phpvsfiid 204274
    B/Ex—69 to 107 centimeters (27.2 to 42.1 inches); 60 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior and 40 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, 40 percent pink (5YR 7/4) interior, dry; gravelly fine sandy loam; weak thick platy structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent very coarse distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 15 percent very coarse distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 25 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02484; moist when described; observed in pit, small. some brittleness; patchy - phpvsfiid 204273; patchy - phpvsfiid 204273
    C—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); 80 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior and 20 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior very fine sandy loam; massive; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent very coarse distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, pH meter. Lab sample # 01N02485; moist when described; observed in pit, small. pockets of silty clay loam