IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wakefield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000MI131015
  • User Pedon ID: S2000MI131015
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000MI131015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0438
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13283
  • 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: 46.7072182
  • Std. Longitude: -89.7903748
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 50N
  • Range: 44W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 of NE 1/4
  • Location Description: Pedon is about two miles east of Little Carp River Road and about 1/4 mile south of the South Boundary Road.
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI131—Ontonagon
  • MLRA: 93—Superior Stony and Rocky Loamy Plains and Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI612—Ontonagon County Area, Michigan
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RFT, JSE
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, 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 #: 15
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wakefield
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Alfic Oxyaquic Fragiorthods
  • PSC - 28 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/30/2000
  • 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 Flats: flat
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/30/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 10039-178
  • 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

    ARTR

    BEAL2

    LOCA7

    OSVI

    TIAM

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharum

    Aralia nudicaulis

    Arisaema triphyllum

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Lonicera canadensis

    Ostrya virginiana

    Tilia americana

    red maple

    sugar maple

    wild sarsaparilla

    Jack in the pulpit

    yellow birch

    American fly honeysuckle

    hophornbeam

    American basswood

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

    fragipan

    46 - 84

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    fragipan

    argillic horizon

    0—13

    3—13

    13—46

    46—84

    46—203

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    4

    435

    90

    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) interior moderately decomposed plant material; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 15.0 very fine to coarse roots; 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3) interior, pinkish gray (5YR 6/2) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15.0 very fine to coarse roots; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 4 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat subangular 2-?-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02516; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs1—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior stony silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine to coarse roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02517; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs2—30 to 38 centimeters (11.8 to 15.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 fine to coarse roots; 2 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02518; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs3—38 to 46 centimeters (15.0 to 18.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak thick platy parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 5.0 fine and medium roots; 2 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02519; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2BEx—46 to 84 centimeters (18.1 to 33.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior loam; weak thick platy parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent prominent light reddish brown (5YR 6/3), moist, skeletans on all faces of peds and 15 percent faint dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02520; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Horizon is hard and brittle.; continuous - phpvsfiid 204329; patchy - phpvsfiid 204330; continuous - phpvsfiid 204329; patchy - phpvsfiid 204330
    2Bt1—84 to 140 centimeters (33.1 to 55.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent faint dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 2 percent prominent light reddish brown (5YR 6/3), moist, skeletans on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 8 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02521; moist when described; observed in pit, small. The Bs3 horizon has some brittleness. The 2BEx horizon is hard and brittle.; continuous - phpvsfiid 204331; patchy - phpvsfiid 204332; continuous - phpvsfiid 204331; patchy - phpvsfiid 204332
    2Bt2—140 to 203 centimeters (55.1 to 79.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent faint dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter. Lab sample # 01N02522; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 204333; patchy - phpvsfiid 204333