IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Udorthents
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: E03MI131001
  • User Pedon ID: S2003MI131001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: E03MI131001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0454
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16646
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 46.6941490
  • Std. Longitude: -89.1639175
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: LTA 20
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI131—Ontonagon
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI612—Ontonagon County Area, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46089-F2—Rockland, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ken Wikgren
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, frigid Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Udorthents
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, frigid Udorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 5/22/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty colluvium
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: rotational slide
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/22/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: FS
  • 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

    2MOSS

    ABBA

    ACSA3

    ATFI

    BEPA

    CAREX

    CATH2

    DRSP4

    LOCA7

    MACA4

    PHCO24

    PIST

    POTR5

    SACA13

    TRILL

    TSCA

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    Abies balsamea

    Acer saccharum

    Athyrium filix-femina

    Betula papyrifera

    Carex

    Caulophyllum thalictroides

    Dryopteris spinulosa

    Lonicera canadensis

    Maianthemum canadense

    Phegopteris connectilis

    Pinus strobus

    Populus tremuloides

    Sanguinaria canadensis

    Trillium

    Tsuga canadensis

    Moss

    balsam fir

    sugar maple

    common ladyfern

    paper birch

    sedge

    blue cohosh

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    American fly honeysuckle

    Canada mayflower

    long beechfern

    eastern white pine

    quaking aspen

    bloodroot

    trillium

    eastern hemlock

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—13

    13—203

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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

    43

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    330

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), reddish gray (5YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; low excavation difficulty; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02738; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; low excavation difficulty; 6.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 1 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02739; moist when described; observed in pit, small. weak albic development in places; patchy - phpvsfiid 255367; patchy - phpvsfiid 255367
    C2—36 to 76 centimeters (14.2 to 29.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) silt loam, silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; low excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine to medium roots and 0.9 coarse roots; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02740; moist when described; observed in pit, small. weak argillic development in places; patchy - phpvsfiid 255368; patchy - phpvsfiid 255368
    C3—76 to 173 centimeters (29.9 to 68.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) silt loam, silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; low excavation difficulty; 0.9 very fine to medium roots; 2 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02741; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 255369; patchy - phpvsfiid 255369
    C4—173 to 203 centimeters (68.1 to 79.9 inches); silt loam; massive, and weak medium subangular blocky; friable; low excavation difficulty; 2 percent prominent carbonate coats on all faces of peds; 2 percent prominent light reddish brown (2.5YR 6/3), moist, carbonate concretions; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH meter. Lab sample # 04N02742; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 255370; patchy - phpvsfiid 255370