IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amnicon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001mi131011
  • User Pedon ID: S2001MI131011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2001mi131011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0713
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15230
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 46.5641632
  • Std. Longitude: -89.1428528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI131—Ontonagon
  • MLRA: 92—Superior Lake Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RFT
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed, active, frigid Oxyaquic Vertic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Amnicon
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, mixed, active, frigid Oxyaquic Vertic Glossudalfs
  • PSC - 25 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/2/2001
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: poorly sorted silty and clayey till over poorly sorted clayey till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: till plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/2/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    HIERA

    LOTUS

    PIGL

    PIST

    SALIX

    SOLID

    Hieracium

    Lotus

    Picea glauca

    Pinus strobus

    Salix

    Solidago

    hawkweed

    trefoil

    white spruce

    eastern white pine

    willow

    goldenrod

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

    ochric epipedon

    glossic horizon

    argillic horizon

    cambic horizon

    0—13

    13—25

    13—66

    66—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

    4

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior, light reddish brown (5YR 6/3) exterior, dry; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; 9.0 very fine to coarse roots; 10 percent silt coats; 3 percent by volume 2-20-40 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N03512; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E/B—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); 80 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 5/3) interior and 20 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) interior, light reddish brown (5YR 6/3) exterior, dry; silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; 7.0 very fine to medium roots; 50 percent faint reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist,; 5 percent by volume 2-25-50 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N03513; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; 1.0 very fine to medium roots; 20 percent distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 75 percent faint reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-25-50 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N03514; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; 1.0 very fine to medium roots; 15 percent prominent reddish brown (5YR 5/3), 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; 5 percent by volume 2-25-50 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N03515; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC1—66 to 145 centimeters (26.0 to 57.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to strong coarse angular blocky structure; 0.8 fine roots; 10 percent distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 5/3), 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; 3 percent fine prominent carbonate concretions; 3 percent by volume 2-15-25 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N03516; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC2—145 to 203 centimeters (57.1 to 79.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; 0.5 very fine roots; 5 percent prominent reddish brown (5YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 90 percent faint reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-25-50 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 02N03517; moist when described; observed in pit, small. pockets and lens of sandy loam