IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Michigamme
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000MI131013
  • User Pedon ID: S2000MI131013
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000MI131013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0436
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13281
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024
  • 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: 46.8016739
  • Std. Longitude: -89.7690353
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 51N
  • Range: 43W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4 of NW 1/4
  • Location Description: The pedon is 300 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: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Alfic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Michigamme
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Alfic Haplorthods
  • PSC - 28 to 76 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: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: basalt at 76cm
  • Geology: Keweenawan formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 3.00 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

    ACRU

    ACSA3

    ARNU2

    ASMA2

    BEAL2

    CLBO3

    DRCA11

    LOCA7

    MACA4

    OSCL2

    OSVI

    POPU4

    VIOLA

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharum

    Aralia nudicaulis

    Aster macrophyllus

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Clintonia borealis

    Dryopteris carthusiana

    Lonicera canadensis

    Maianthemum canadense

    Osmunda claytoniana

    Ostrya virginiana

    Polygonatum pubescens

    Viola

    red maple

    sugar maple

    wild sarsaparilla

    yellow birch

    bluebead

    spinulose woodfern

    American fly honeysuckle

    Canada mayflower

    interrupted fern

    hophornbeam

    hairy Solomon's seal

    violet

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

    bedrock, lithic

    76 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—8

    3—8

    8—51

    51—76

    76—

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    20

    395

    80

    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) interior moderately decomposed plant material; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N02504; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior very fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N02505; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs1—8 to 30 centimeters (3.1 to 11.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior very fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 very fine to coarse roots; 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N02506; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs2—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior very fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine to coarse roots; 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02507; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    B/E—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); 85 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) interior and 15 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) interior fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine to coarse roots; 5 percent faint red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 01N02508; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 204272; patchy - phpvsfiid 204272
    2R—76 centimeters (29.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small