IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Porkies
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002MI131004
  • User Pedon ID: S2002MI131004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2002MI131004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0266
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15889
  • 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: 46.6966629
  • Std. Longitude: -89.8348236
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 50N
  • Range: 44W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4 of the SW 1/4
  • Location Description: Tiebel Creek Quadrangle
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI131—Ontonagon
  • MLRA: 93—Superior Stony and Rocky Loamy Plains and Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI612—Ontonagon County Area, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bill Anzalone and J Scott Eversoll
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Fragic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Porkies
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Fragic Haplorthods
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/12/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: undulating
  • Slope Shape Down: undulating
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent 75- to 1000-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/12/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Kind: microhigh
  • 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

    ACPA

    ACSA3

    ARALI

    CAREX

    CAULO

    DRSP4

    GYDR

    HULU2

    OSCL

    PHCO24

    POPU4

    SAMBU

    STAM2

    VIOLA

    Actaea pachypoda

    Acer saccharum

    Aralia

    Carex

    Caulophyllum

    Dryopteris spinulosa

    Gymnocarpium dryopteris

    Huperzia lucidula

    Osmorhiza claytonii

    Phegopteris connectilis

    Polygonatum pubescens

    Sambucus

    Streptopus amplexifolius

    Viola

    white baneberry

    sugar maple

    spikenard

    sedge

    cohosh

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    western oakfern

    shining clubmoss

    Clayton's sweetroot

    long beechfern

    hairy Solomon's seal

    elderberry

    claspleaf twistedstalk

    violet

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    weakly coherent

    127 - 155

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

    ochric epipedon

    spodic horizon

    argillic horizon

    fragic soil properties

    3—25

    10—102

    102—155

    127—155

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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

    37

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    330

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) slightly decomposed plant material; very high excavation difficulty; 5 percent by volume 150-250-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 600-750-1000 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-450-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    A—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) very gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; very high excavation difficulty; 1.0 very coarse roots and 10.0 fine to coarse roots; 5 percent by volume flat 150-250-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 600-750-1000 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-400-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N01339; observed in trench
    E—8 to 10 centimeters (3.1 to 3.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), reddish gray (5YR 5/2), dry; very gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; very high excavation difficulty; 10.0 fine to coarse roots; 5 percent by volume flat 150-250-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 600-750-1000 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-400-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 03N01340; observed in trench
    Bhs—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) very gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; very high excavation difficulty; 10.0 fine to coarse roots; 5 percent by volume flat 150-250-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 600-750-1000 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-400-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01341; observed in trench
    Bs1—18 to 79 centimeters (7.1 to 31.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) very gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; very high excavation difficulty; 8.0 fine to coarse roots; 5 percent by volume flat 150-250-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 600-750-1000 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-400-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01342; observed in trench
    Bs2—79 to 102 centimeters (31.1 to 40.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) very bouldery fine sandy loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; very high excavation difficulty; 8.0 fine and medium roots; 2 percent by volume flat 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-400-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 600-750-1000 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01343; observed in trench
    Bt—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) very bouldery fine sandy loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable; very high excavation difficulty; 6.0 fine and medium roots; 30 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-350-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 600-700-1000 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01344; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1603873; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1603873
    Btx—127 to 155 centimeters (50.0 to 61.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) bouldery fine sandy loam; weak thick platy parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; hard, firm; brittle; very high excavation difficulty; 4.0 medium and coarse roots; 10 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume 250-400-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume flat 150-250-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 600-750-1000 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01345; observed in trench. patchy - phpvsfiid 1603874; patchy - phpvsfiid 1603874
    E/B—155 to 229 centimeters (61.0 to 90.2 inches); variegated dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) and red (2.5YR 4/6) extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand, extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and single grain; loose, friable; very high excavation difficulty; 2.0 fine and medium roots; 5 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; 5 percent by volume 600-750-1000 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 250-400-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-125-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter. Lab sample # 03N01346; observed in trench. patchy - phpvsfiid 1603875; patchy - phpvsfiid 1603875