IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Peshekee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000MI131012
  • User Pedon ID: S2000MI131012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000MI131012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0435
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13280
  • 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: 46.8002892
  • Std. Longitude: -89.7722702
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 51N
  • Range: 43W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4 of the SW 1/4
  • Location Description: Pedon is located about 1800 feet southwest of the Lake of the Clouds parking lot along the escarpment trail in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park.
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI131—Ontonagon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: WA
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, semiactive, frigid Lithic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Peshekee
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, semiactive, frigid Lithic Haplorthods
  • PSC - 25 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/2000
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy basal till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: basalt at 33cm
  • Geology: Keweenawan formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat rounded 75- to 600-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/14/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 10039-180
  • 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

    ARNU2

    ASMA2

    CAREX

    MACA4

    POPU4

    TACA7

    Aralia nudicaulis

    Aster macrophyllus

    Carex

    Maianthemum canadense

    Polygonatum pubescens

    Taxus canadensis

    wild sarsaparilla

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    sedge

    Canada mayflower

    hairy Solomon's seal

    Canada yew

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    33 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    spodic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—13

    13—33

    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

    21

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    410

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    10

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) interior gravelly very fine sandy loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N02501; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs1—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior gravelly very fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N02502; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs2—28 to 33 centimeters (11.0 to 13.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior gravelly very fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 very fine to coarse roots; 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N02503; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2R—33 centimeters (13.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small