IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gogebic
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000MI131023
  • User Pedon ID: S2000MI131023
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000MI131023
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0441
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13286
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025
  • 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: 46.6936073
  • Std. Longitude: -89.8509293
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 50N
  • Range: 44W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 of NE 1/4
  • Location Description: Pedon is located south of the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park and about 2/3 of a mile east of the Gogebic County line. It is about 1/4 mile north of Porcupine Peak and 1 1/8 mile south of the South Boundary Road.
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI131—Ontonagon
  • MLRA: 93—Superior Stony and Rocky Loamy Plains and Hills
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: WA
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Alfic Oxyaquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 23
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gogebic
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Alfic Oxyaquic Haplorthods
  • PSC - 28 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/2000
  • 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: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat rounded 75- to 600-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/19/2000 (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

    ARNU2

    BEAL2

    DRCA11

    GYDR

    MARAR

    OSCL

    OSVI

    VIOLA

    Acer saccharum

    Aralia nudicaulis

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Dryopteris carthusiana

    Gymnocarpium dryopteris

    Maianthemum racemosum ssp. racemosum

    Osmorhiza claytonii

    Ostrya virginiana

    Viola

    sugar maple

    wild sarsaparilla

    yellow birch

    spinulose woodfern

    western oakfern

    feathery false lily of the valley

    Clayton's sweetroot

    hophornbeam

    violet

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

    ochric epipedon

    spodic horizon

    glossic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—28

    28—79

    79—94

    94—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

    16

    470

    300

    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); N 2.5/1 (N 2.5/1) interior moderately decomposed plant material; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; fragments, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A1—3 to 20 centimeters (1.2 to 7.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior very gravelly silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02538; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); very dark gray (5YR 3/1) interior very gravelly silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02539; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bhs—28 to 58 centimeters (11.0 to 22.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior very gravelly silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 fine to coarse roots; 4 percent by volume flat subangular 150-?-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02540; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior cobbly silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 fine and medium roots; 2 percent by volume flat subangular 150-?-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02541; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E/B—79 to 94 centimeters (31.1 to 37.0 inches); 70 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior and 30 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior gravelly very fine sandy loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.2 fine and medium roots; 2 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 7 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 30 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02542; moist when described; observed in pit, small. 5% brittleness in the E/B horizon.; patchy - phpvsfiid 204316; patchy - phpvsfiid 204316
    Bt1—94 to 145 centimeters (37.0 to 57.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior gravelly loamy sand; weak thick platy parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 2 percent faint reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 25 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02543; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Seepage at 57 inches.; patchy - phpvsfiid 204317; patchy - phpvsfiid 204317
    Bt2—145 to 203 centimeters (57.1 to 79.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent faint dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 20 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments, pH meter. Lab sample # 01N02544; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 204318; patchy - phpvsfiid 204318