IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Schweitzer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: U03MI131002
  • User Pedon ID: S2003MI131002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: U03MI131002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0455
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16645
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 46.7036285
  • Std. Longitude: -89.8408966
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 83E—SCHWEITZER FINE SANDY LOAM, 18 TO 35 PERCENT SLOPES, VERY STONY
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI131—Ontonagon
  • MLRA: 93B—Superior Stony and Rocky Loamy Plains and Hills
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI612—Ontonagon County Area, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46089-F8—Tiebel Creek, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scott Eversoll, Steve Tardy, John L Harris
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Alfic Fragiorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Schweitzer
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Alfic Fragiorthods
  • PSC - 8 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/7/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy eolian deposits over coarse-loamy till
  • Landscape: loamy till plain
  • Landform: till plain
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/7/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 10039-145
  • 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

    BEAL2

    DRSP4

    EUSID

    OSCL

    RUPA

    VIOLA

    Acer rubrum

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Dryopteris spinulosa

    Eusideroxylon

    Osmorhiza claytonii

    Rubus parviflorus

    Viola

    red maple

    yellow birch

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    ironwood

    Clayton's sweetroot

    thimbleberry

    violet

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    moderately coherent

    38 - 168

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

    ochric epipedon

    spodic horizon

    fragipan

    0—8

    8—76

    76—168

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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

    35

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    130

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    A/E—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); 60 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) and 40 percent brown (7.5YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; moderate excavation difficulty; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; 3 percent by volume flat 2-50-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 04N02743; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bhs—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) gravelly silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate excavation difficulty; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; 3 percent by volume flat 2-50-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02744; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs1—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) gravelly silt loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate excavation difficulty; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; 3 percent by volume flat 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02745; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs2—38 to 76 centimeters (15.0 to 29.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) very gravelly silt loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate excavation difficulty; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat 150-250-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat 2-50-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02746; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Btx1—76 to 127 centimeters (29.9 to 50.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate thin platy parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard; moderate excavation difficulty; 4.0 very fine to medium roots between peds; 2 percent faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay bridges on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat 2-50-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02747; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 255365; patchy - phpvsfiid 255365
    2Btx2—127 to 168 centimeters (50.0 to 66.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak thin platy structure; hard; moderate excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine to medium roots between peds; 2 percent faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay bridges on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume flat 2-50-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02748; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 255366; patchy - phpvsfiid 255366
    2C—168 to 229 centimeters (66.1 to 90.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky parts to weak thin platy structure; friable; moderate excavation difficulty; 0.8 very fine and fine roots between peds; 15 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter. Lab sample # 04N02749; moist when described; observed in pit, small