IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Michigamme
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000MI131030
  • User Pedon ID: S2000MI131030
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0445
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13290
  • 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: 46.6937714
  • Std. Longitude: -89.8322067
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 50N
  • Range: 44W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 of SW 1/4 of SE 1/4
  • Location Description: The pedon is located south of the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park and east of Blowdown Creek. It is 1 1/8 mile south of the South Boundary Road and 1.4 miles east of the Gogebic County Line.
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI131—Ontonagon
  • MLRA: 93—Superior Stony and Rocky Loamy Plains and Hills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JSE
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 30
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Michigamme
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • PSC - 28 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/27/2000
  • 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: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated rhyolite at 56cm
  • Geology: Keweenawan formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent nonflat rounded 250- to 600-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/27/2000 (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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    56 -

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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—10

    10—53

    56—

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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

    20

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    —

    520

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    90

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) interior moderately decomposed plant material; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 15.0 fine to coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N02567; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) interior gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 15.0 fine to coarse roots; 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02568; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—8 to 10 centimeters (3.1 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) interior gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15.0 fine to coarse roots; 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; clear broken boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bhs1—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior gravelly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15.0 fine to coarse roots; 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02569; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bhs2—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior gravelly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 12.0 fine to coarse roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02570; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior gravelly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine to coarse roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02571; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bx—53 to 56 centimeters (20.9 to 22.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior very gravelly silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 8.0 fine to coarse roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02572; moist when described; observed in pit, small. The Bx horizon is 70% brittle.
    2R—56 centimeters (22.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small