IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): McMillan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001MI095003
  • User Pedon ID: S2001MI095003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • 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: 46.3286095
  • Std. Longitude: -85.6941681
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 45N
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: Luce County, Michigan; about 1 mile south of the village of McMillan; 1000 feet east and 1250 feet south of the northwest 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-C6—McMillan, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, frigid Lamellic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - McMillan
  • Classificaton Date - 5/30/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - McMillan
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy and/or sandy glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landform: recessional moraine, outwash plain
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    lamellae

    3—10

    10—15

    15—56

    81—203

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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

    27

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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; 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; fine sandy loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots throughout and 6.0 coarse roots; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; abrupt wavy boundary.
    E—10 to 15 centimeters (3.9 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), dry; fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots throughout and 6.0 coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; abrupt broken boundary.
    Bhs—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) very fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots throughout and 6.0 coarse roots; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; clear irregular boundary.
    Bs1—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) very fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; clear wavy boundary.
    Bs2—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loamy fine sand; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 fine roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bw—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual wavy boundary.
    E and Bt—81 to 203 centimeters (31.9 to 79.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3) and brown (7.5YR 5/4), pink (7.5YR 7/3), dry; sand, loamy sand; massive; friable; 0.9 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8.