IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Porkies
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000MI131011
  • User Pedon ID: S2000MI131011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000MI131011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0434
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13279
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 46.8197289
  • Std. Longitude: -89.6715927
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 51N
  • Range: 42W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 of NW 1/4
  • Location Description: 300 feet south of highway 107 and one mile west of the Porcupine Mountains ski hill entrance road.
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI131—Ontonagon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: WA
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Alfic Oxyaquic Fragiorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Porkies
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Alfic Oxyaquic Fragiorthods
  • PSC - 25 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/13/2000
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy basal till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 3.00 percent nonflat rounded 75- to 800-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/13/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 4901-61
  • 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

    ACPA

    ACSA3

    ARNU2

    ASMA2

    BOVI

    CLBO3

    DRCA11

    HULU2

    LOCA7

    MACA4

    OSCL

    POPU4

    RUPA

    TRBO2

    TSCA

    VIOLA

    Actaea pachypoda

    Acer saccharum

    Aralia nudicaulis

    Aster macrophyllus

    Botrychium virginianum

    Clintonia borealis

    Dryopteris carthusiana

    Huperzia lucidula

    Lonicera canadensis

    Maianthemum canadense

    Osmorhiza claytonii

    Polygonatum pubescens

    Rubus parviflorus

    Trientalis borealis

    Tsuga canadensis

    Viola

    white baneberry

    sugar maple

    wild sarsaparilla

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    rattlesnake fern

    bluebead

    spinulose woodfern

    shining clubmoss

    American fly honeysuckle

    Canada mayflower

    Clayton's sweetroot

    hairy Solomon's seal

    thimbleberry

    starflower

    eastern hemlock

    violet

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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

    fragic soil properties

    0—10

    10—41

    41—152

    41—97

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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

    21

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    300

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dusky red (2.5YR 2.5/2) interior very cobbly silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N02497; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs—10 to 41 centimeters (3.9 to 16.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior very cobbly fine sandy loam, silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable; 5.0 very fine to coarse roots; 15 percent coarse prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02498; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btx—41 to 97 centimeters (16.1 to 38.2 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior gravelly loam; moderate medium platy structure; firm; brittle; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 5 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist, sand coats on all faces of peds and 50 percent faint reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02499; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 204275; patchy - phpvsfiid 204276; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 204275; patchy - phpvsfiid 204276
    Bt—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3) interior gravelly loam; moderate thick platy structure; firm; 10 percent faint reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter. Lab sample # 01N02500; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 204277; patchy - phpvsfiid 204277