IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dillingham
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001MI095002
  • User Pedon ID: S2001MI095002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 46.5252762
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8383331
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 48N
  • Range: 12W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: Luce County, Michigan; about 13 miles northwest of the village of McMillan; 1750 feet east and 2100 feet north of the southwest corner
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI095—Luce
  • MLRA: 94B—Michigan Eastern Upper Peninsula Sandy Glacial Deposits
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-RHI—Rhinelander, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI095—Luce County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46085-E7—Grand Marais SE, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, isotic, frigid Typic Fragiorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dillingham
  • Classificaton Date - 5/30/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dillingham
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landform: disintegration moraine
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/2006 (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

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    fragipan

    3—20

    20—53

    53—79

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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

    11

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    762

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    6

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); mucky peat; weak medium granular structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; abrupt smooth boundary.
    E—3 to 20 centimeters (1.2 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2), dry; loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots; 1 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; abrupt irregular boundary.
    Bhs—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots throughout and 6.0 coarse roots; 1 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; abrupt irregular boundary.
    Bs—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) loamy fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots throughout and 6.0 coarse roots; 1 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; abrupt irregular boundary.
    E/Bx—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/3) and reddish brown (5YR 5/4), pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), dry; fine sand, loamy fine sand; weak thick platy structure; very firm; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots in cracks; 6.0 medium tubular and 6.0 medium vesicular and 6.0 fine vesicular and 6.0 fine tubular pores; 6 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; clear wavy boundary.
    C—79 to 203 centimeters (31.1 to 79.9 inches); pinkish gray (5YR 6/2) and reddish brown (5YR 5/4) and reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) sand; massive parts to weak thick platy; firm; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0.