IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Annalake
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001mi131004
  • User Pedon ID: S2001MI131004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2001mi131004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0706
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15223
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 46.9847527
  • Std. Longitude: -88.9404449
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Misery Bay, approximately 2 miles from Lake Superior and .9 miles south of Misery Bay Road.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI131—Ontonagon
  • MLRA: 92—Superior Lake Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RFT
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Alfic Oxyaquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Annalake
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Alfic Oxyaquic Haplorthods
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/2001
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: stratified loamy glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/19/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 35-212
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACSA3

    ATFI

    BEAL2

    COCO6

    DRCA11

    EUSID

    FRPE

    ONSE

    RUPA

    STAM2

    TSUGA

    Acer saccharum

    Athyrium filix-femina

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Corylus cornuta

    Dryopteris carthusiana

    Eusideroxylon

    Fraxinus pennsylvanica

    Onoclea sensibilis

    Rubus parviflorus

    Streptopus amplexifolius

    Tsuga

    sugar maple

    common ladyfern

    yellow birch

    beaked hazelnut

    spinulose woodfern

    ironwood

    green ash

    sensitive fern

    thimbleberry

    claspleaf twistedstalk

    hemlock

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    8—15

    15—28

    107—142

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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

    5

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    250

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    23

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark reddish gray (2.5YR 3/1) interior, reddish gray (5YR 5/2) exterior, dry; very fine sandy loam; moderate coarse granular structure; very friable; very coarse roots and 8.0 fine to coarse roots; 3 percent by volume 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N03466; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); weak red (2.5YR 5/2) interior, pinkish gray (5YR 6/2) exterior, dry; very fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine to coarse roots and very coarse roots; 1 percent by volume 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 02N03467; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); 95 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and 5 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior very fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 fine and medium roots; 1 percent by volume 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N03468; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E/B—28 to 58 centimeters (11.0 to 22.8 inches); 80 percent reddish gray (5YR 5/2) interior and 20 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior very fine sandy loam, clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 80 percent faint reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N03469; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Redox features in the B part of the horizon; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 205470; patchy - phpvsfiid 205471; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 205470; patchy - phpvsfiid 205471
    2EandB—58 to 107 centimeters (22.8 to 42.1 inches); 80 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and 20 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior stratified stratified fine sand to very fine sandy loam to silt loam to loamy fine sand to very fine sandy loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine to coarse roots; 10 percent faint reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N03470; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Redox features in the E part of the horizon; patchy - phpvsfiid 205469; patchy - phpvsfiid 205469
    3Bt—107 to 142 centimeters (42.1 to 55.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3) interior and reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; strong very coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate thick platy structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; 80 percent faint reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 02N03471; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 205468; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 205468
    4EandB'—142 to 203 centimeters (55.9 to 79.9 inches); 85 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior and 15 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) interior stratified stratified fine sand to loamy fine sand; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # 02N03472; moist when described; observed in pit, small