IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gulliver
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000MI153006
  • User Pedon ID: S2000MI153006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 1/10/2025

    • 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: 46.0513878
  • Std. Longitude: -85.9372253
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 42N
  • Range: 13W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: Schoolcraft County, Michigan Subset; about 4 miles northeast of Gulliver; 1720 feet south and 2640 feet east of the northwest corner
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI153—Schoolcraft
  • MLRA: 94B—Michigan Eastern Upper Peninsula Sandy Glacial Deposits
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-RHI—Rhinelander, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI153—Schoolcraft County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46085-A8—Blaney Park, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Alfic Oxyaquic haplo Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gulliver
  • Classificaton Date - 5/30/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gulliver
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy eolian deposits and/or loamy till
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: limestone, unspecified at 147cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

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    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    argillic horizon

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    0—10

    10—23

    23—48

    61—76

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    —-

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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

    4

    —

    —

    210

    —

    760

    —

    —

    4

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt wavy boundary.
    E—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), light gray (7.5YR 7/1), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse granular structure; friable; 0.9 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 0.9 coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary.
    Bhs—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silt; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots throughout and 0.9 coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary.
    2Bs—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 medium roots and 0.9 fine roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt wavy boundary.
    2E/Bt—48 to 61 centimeters (18.9 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) and reddish brown (5YR 4/3), light gray (7.5YR 7/1), dry; loamy sand, sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.9 fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine vesicular pores; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume subrounded 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear irregular boundary.
    2Bt—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.9 fine roots throughout; 6.0 fine vesicular pores; 6 percent faint dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume subrounded 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary.
    2C1—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; firm; 1 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 3 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear wavy boundary.
    2C2—102 to 147 centimeters (40.2 to 57.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; firm; 3 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 3 percent coarse faint light brown (7.5YR 6/3), moist, iron depletions throughout; 3 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded 20-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 8 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 8 percent by volume subrounded 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; abrupt wavy boundary.
    3R—147 centimeters (57.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.