IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Moquah
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001MI053016
  • User Pedon ID: S2001MI053016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0153
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13805
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 46.5122032
  • Std. Longitude: -89.9819717
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 424—BLUEBILL MUCKY PEAT, 0 TO 1 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI053—Gogebic
  • MLRA: 93—Superior Stony and Rocky Loamy Plains and Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI609—Gogebic County Area, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Perkis, Silkworth
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Moquah
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Udifluvents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/26/2001
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: pH


    • SITE

  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for brief periods begining in apr
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/26/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - 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

    umbric epipedon

    0—5

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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

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face fine sandy loam; moderate coarse granular structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; ; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00554; observed in pit, small
    C1—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) broken face fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00555; observed in pit, small
    C2—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) broken face fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00556; observed in pit, small
    C3—48 to 65 centimeters (18.9 to 25.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face loamy sand; structureless single grain; loose; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00557; observed in pit, small
    C4—65 to 125 centimeters (25.6 to 49.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) broken face fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine distinct irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00558; observed in pit, small
    C5—125 to 157 centimeters (49.2 to 61.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face loamy sand; weak thin platy structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent medium distinct irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00559; observed in pit, small
    C6—157 to 203 centimeters (61.8 to 79.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed stratified stratified sand to loamy sand; structureless single grain; loose; fragments.; observed in auger, bucket