IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chatham
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002MI003002
  • User Pedon ID: S2002MI003002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2002MI003002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0277
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15900
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 46.3919411
  • Std. Longitude: -87.0408325
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 46N
  • Range: 22W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: SE QUARTER
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI003—Alger
  • MLRA: 94B—Michigan Eastern Upper Peninsula Sandy Glacial Deposits
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI603—Alger County Area, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46087-D1—Sand River, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: CFS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, frigid Entic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chatham
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, frigid Entic Haplorthods
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/16/2002
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: outwash
  • Landform: glacial drainage channel
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/16/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 15SE
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Microrelief Kind: microlow
  • Plant Association Name: AVO-A
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACSA3

    ADIAN

    ALTR3

    DRSP4

    GALIU

    OSCL

    POA

    POPU4

    SACA11

    VICA4

    VIOLA

    VIPU3

    Acer saccharum

    Adiantum

    Allium tricoccum

    Dryopteris spinulosa

    Galium

    Osmorhiza claytonii

    Poa

    Polygonatum pubescens

    Sambucus callicarpa

    Viola canadensis

    Viola

    Viola pubescens

    sugar maple

    maidenhair fern

    ramp

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    bedstraw

    Clayton's sweetroot

    bluegrass

    hairy Solomon's seal

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    Canadian white violet

    violet

    downy yellow violet

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

    spodic horizon

    15—99

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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

    3

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    308

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    10

    812

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    110

    5

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    Oa—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (N 2.5/0) rubbed muck; moderate permeability; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01419; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) broken face, gray (10YR 5/1), dry; gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 7.0 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout and 7.0 coarse roots throughout; 1 percent by volume 250-?-610 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 12 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01420; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs1—15 to 50 centimeters (5.9 to 19.7 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 7.0 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 2.0 fine vesicular pores; 2 percent fine prominent cylindrical very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, worm casts throughout; 1 percent by volume 250-?-610 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 12 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01421; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bs2—50 to 99 centimeters (19.7 to 39.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face flaggy fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 2 percent fine prominent cylindrical very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, worm casts throughout; 2 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, glauconitic fragments and 3 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, glauconitic fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-?-610 millimeter sandstone, glauconitic fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments and 7 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments and 10 percent by volume 250-?-610 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01422; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2C—99 to 203 centimeters (39.0 to 79.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed very flaggy fine sandy loam; structureless massive; friable; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2 percent fine prominent cylindrical very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, worm casts throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, glauconitic fragments and 8 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, glauconitic fragments and 10 percent by volume 250-?-610 millimeter sandstone, glauconitic fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments and 17 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments and 20 percent by volume 250-?-610 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, phenol red. Lab sample # 03N01423; moist when described; observed in pit, small