IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Moquah
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002MI131006
  • User Pedon ID: S2002MI131006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2002MI131006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0268
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15891
  • 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: 46.7196121
  • Std. Longitude: -89.2061996
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: near bridge, over Ontonagon River, on Lake Victoria Road
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI131—Ontonagon
  • MLRA: 92—Superior Lake Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bill Anzalone
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, nonacid, frigid Typic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Moquah
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, nonacid, frigid Typic Udifluvents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2002
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Slope Position: drainageway
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods begining in apr
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/16/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and 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

    ACRU

    ACSA3

    ACTAE

    ALINR

    ATFI

    CAREX

    CATH2

    CLBO3

    CONVA

    COST4

    EQAR

    FRPE

    MIRE

    OSCL2

    PIGL

    PIST

    POTR5

    PRVI

    TILIA

    VIOLA

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharum

    Actaea

    Alnus incana ssp. rugosa

    Athyrium filix-femina

    Carex

    Caulophyllum thalictroides

    Clintonia borealis

    Convallaria

    Cornus stolonifera

    Equisetum arvense

    Fraxinus pennsylvanica

    Mitchella repens

    Osmunda claytoniana

    Picea glauca

    Pinus strobus

    Populus tremuloides

    Prunus virginiana

    Tilia

    Viola

    red maple

    sugar maple

    baneberry

    speckled alder

    common ladyfern

    sedge

    blue cohosh

    bluebead

    convallaria

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    field horsetail

    green ash

    partridgeberry

    interrupted fern

    white spruce

    eastern white pine

    quaking aspen

    chokecherry

    basswood

    violet

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—15

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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

    2

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    320

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) very fine sandy loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 very fine and fine roots and 5.0 medium and coarse roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N01354; observed in trench
    A2—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) very fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 very fine to medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N01355; observed in trench
    C1—15 to 61 centimeters (5.9 to 24.0 inches); variegated 40 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 30 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) and 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) stratified stratified silt loam to loamy very fine sand to loamy fine sand; massive; friable; 0.8 very fine to medium roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01356; observed in trench
    C2—61 to 104 centimeters (24.0 to 40.9 inches); variegated 40 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 40 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 20 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) stratified stratified silt loam to very fine sandy loam to fine sand; massive; loose, friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01357; observed in trench
    C3—104 to 170 centimeters (40.9 to 66.9 inches); variegated 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) and 30 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 20 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) stratified stratified fine sand to sand to very fine sandy loam to loamy very fine sand; massive; loose, friable; 0.2 fine and medium roots; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01358; observed in trench
    C4—170 to 203 centimeters (66.9 to 79.9 inches); variegated 75 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) and 20 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 5 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) stratified stratified fine sand to sand to silt loam to loamy fine sand; massive; loose, friable; 0.1 fine and medium roots; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter. Lab sample # 03N01359; observed in trench