IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Watton

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: S2002MI131007

User Pedon ID: S2002MI131007

Vegetation Plot ID: S2002MI131007

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - SSL

Lab Pedon # - 03N0269

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15892

Print Date: 12/4/2024

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: 46.8144035

Std. Longitude: -89.4255066

Datum: WGS84

Location Description: LP Walsh Road

Country: US—United States

State: Michigan

County: MI131—Ontonagon

MLRA: 92—Superior Lake Plain

PEDON

Describers Name: Bill Anzalone and J Scott Eversoll

Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Haplic Glossudalfs

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: OSD pedon

Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon

Pedon #: 7

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Watton

Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Haplic Glossudalfs

PSC - 25 to 100 cm.

Classificaton Date - 8/5/2002

Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: fine-loamy till

Landscape: till plain

Slope Position: upper third

Drainage Class: well

Surface Fragments:

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 8/5/2002 (actual site observation date)

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
ACRU ACSA3 ALINR BEPA CAREX EUSID POTR5 PRVI PTAQ	Acer rubrum Acer saccharum Alnus incana ssp. rugosa Betula papyrifera Carex Eusideroxylon Populus tremuloides Prunus virginiana Pteridium aquilinum	red maple sugar maple speckled alder paper birch sedge ironwood quaking aspen chokecherry western brackenfern	— — — — — — — — —	— — — — — — — — —	— — — — — — — — —

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
ochric epipedon argillic horizon interfingering of albic materials densic contact	0—8 15—142 30—58 58—206	—- —- —- —-

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
38	—	—	—	—	150	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2), brown (7.5YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; moderate coarse granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine to coarse roots; 2 percent by volume 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01360; observed in cut

E/B—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); 60 percent light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) and 40 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3), light reddish brown (5YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine to coarse roots; 2 percent by volume 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01361; observed in trench

B/E1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); 90 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) and 10 percent light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), pinkish gray (5YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine to coarse roots; 2 percent by volume 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01362; observed in trench

B/E2—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); 80 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 20 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/3), pinkish gray (5YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.9 very fine to coarse roots in cracks; 15 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01363; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 241294; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 241294

Bt—58 to 112 centimeters (22.8 to 44.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.9 very fine to coarse roots in cracks; 40 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent coarse and very coarse prominent spherical very strongly coherent cemented carbonate nodules; 2 percent by volume 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01364; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 241295; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 241295

BCd—112 to 142 centimeters (44.1 to 55.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 20 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent coarse and very coarse prominent spherical very strongly coherent cemented carbonate nodules; 2 percent by volume 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01365; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 241296; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 241296

Cd—142 to 206 centimeters (55.9 to 81.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak very thick platy structure; very firm; 1 percent coarse and very coarse prominent spherical very strongly coherent cemented carbonate nodules; 2 percent by volume 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter. Lab sample # 03N01366; observed in trench