IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilchrist
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002MI153027
  • User Pedon ID: S2002MI153027
  • 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: 45.9159164
  • Std. Longitude: -86.4470367
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 41N
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: Schoolcraft County, Michigan; about 2 miles east of Thompson; 1782 feet north and 396 feet east of the southwest 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: 45086-H4—Cooks, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, frigid Oxyaquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilchrist
  • Classificaton Date - 5/30/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilchrist
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: ground moraine, outwash plain, drumlin
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/2006 (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

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    8—18

    18—48

    66—

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    —-

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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

    —

    —

    226

    —

    760

    —

    —

    4

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Oe—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) mucky peat; fragments.
    E—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), light gray (7.5YR 7/1), dry; sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear irregular boundary.
    Bhs—18 to 23 centimeters (7.1 to 9.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 0.9 coarse roots throughout; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear broken boundary.
    Bs1—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots around fragments; 10 percent by volume ortstein fragments fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary.
    Bs2—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.9 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary.
    2Cd—66 to 203 centimeters (26.0 to 79.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) extremely gravelly sandy loam; strong coarse platy structure; very firm; 1 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 65 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2.