IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cookson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002MI153004
  • User Pedon ID: S2002MI153004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • 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: 46.0355568
  • Std. Longitude: -85.9444427
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 42N
  • Range: 13W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: Schoolcraft County, Michigan Subset; about 3 miles northeast of Gulliver; 1056 feet east and 2112 feet south of the northwest corner
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI153—Schoolcraft
  • MLRA: 94B—Michigan Eastern Upper Peninsula Sandy Glacial Deposits
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-RHI—Rhinelander, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI153—Schoolcraft County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46085-A8—Blaney Park, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, frigid Alfic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cookson
  • Classificaton Date - 5/30/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cookson
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy glaciofluvial deposits and/or eolian deposits and/or loamy till
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: limestone, unspecified at 91cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

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    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    glossic horizon

    argillic horizon

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    8—18

    18—41

    41—53

    53—79

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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

    —

    —

    211

    —

    760

    —

    —

    4

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Oi—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); peat; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0.
    E—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), gray (7.5YR 6/1), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse granular structure; friable; 0.9 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 0.9 coarse roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary.
    Bhs—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots throughout and 0.9 coarse roots; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume subrounded 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary.
    2Bs—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 medium roots and 0.9 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume subrounded 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments and 2 percent by volume subrounded 20-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt broken boundary.
    2E/Bt—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) and reddish brown (5YR 4/3), light gray (7.5YR 7/1), dry; fine sandy loam, fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.9 fine roots throughout; 6.0 fine vesicular pores; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume subrounded 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear irregular boundary.
    2Bt—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.9 fine roots throughout; 6.0 fine vesicular pores; 6 percent faint dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume subrounded 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary.
    2C—79 to 91 centimeters (31.1 to 35.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; massive; firm; 1 percent by volume subrounded 20-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 2 percent by volume subrounded 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; abrupt smooth boundary.
    3R—91 centimeters (35.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.