IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gogebic
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000MI131021
  • User Pedon ID: S2000MI131021
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000MI131021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0418
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14268
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 46.6959877
  • Std. Longitude: -89.8282471
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Pedon is located south of the Porcupine Mountains and about 2 miles east of the Gogebic County line. It is 1/2 mile east of the Little Carp River Road and one mile south of the South Boundary Road.
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI131—Ontonagon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: WA
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Alfic Oxyaquic Fragiorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 21
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gogebic
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Alfic Oxyaquic Fragiorthods
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/18/2000
  • 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: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • 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: 7/18/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 10039-145
  • 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

    ACSA3

    BEAL2

    CAREX

    DRCA11

    OSCL

    VIOLA

    Acer saccharum

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Carex

    Dryopteris carthusiana

    Osmorhiza claytonii

    Viola

    sugar maple

    yellow birch

    sedge

    spinulose woodfern

    Clayton's sweetroot

    violet

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

    fragipan

    moderately coherent

    91 - 142

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    0—8

    8—13

    13—71

    71—163

    102—163

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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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    480

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    340

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) interior cobbly fine sandy loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N02391; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) interior cobbly fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 01N02392; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bhs—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior cobbly fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02393; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs—28 to 71 centimeters (11.0 to 28.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior cobbly fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 very fine to coarse roots; 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02394; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E/B—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); 60 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior and 40 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 20 percent faint dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02395; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 204378; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 204378
    Btx—102 to 163 centimeters (40.2 to 64.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.2 fine and medium roots; 20 percent distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N02396; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 204377; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 204377
    R—163 centimeters (64.2 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small