IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fence
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: E03MI131006
  • User Pedon ID: S2003MI131006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: E03MI131006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0459
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16641
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 46.7868729
  • Std. Longitude: -88.9950943
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 134B—FENCE SILT LOAM, 0 TO 6 PERCENT SLOPES
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI131—Ontonagon
  • MLRA: 92—Superior Lake Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI612—Ontonagon County Area, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46088-G8—Winona South, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bill Anzalone
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Alfic Oxyaquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fence
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Alfic Oxyaquic Haplorthods
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: stratified silty lacustrine deposits
  • Landform: till plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/10/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 10035-206
  • 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

    ABBA

    ACRU

    ACSA3

    ASMA2

    ATFI

    CAREX

    CLBO3

    COCO6

    DIRCA

    LOCA7

    MACA4

    PIGL

    POTR5

    PTAQ

    TILIA

    TRILL

    VIOLA

    Abies balsamea

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharum

    Aster macrophyllus

    Athyrium filix-femina

    Carex

    Clintonia borealis

    Corylus cornuta

    Dirca

    Lonicera canadensis

    Maianthemum canadense

    Picea glauca

    Populus tremuloides

    Pteridium aquilinum

    Tilia

    Trillium

    Viola

    balsam fir

    red maple

    sugar maple

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    common ladyfern

    sedge

    bluebead

    beaked hazelnut

    leatherwood

    American fly honeysuckle

    Canada mayflower

    white spruce

    quaking aspen

    western brackenfern

    basswood

    trillium

    violet

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    glossic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    15—18

    18—33

    38—89

    38—89

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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

    6

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    40

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    335

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; low excavation difficulty; 8.0 very fine roots and 10.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 5.0 coarse roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02773; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—15 to 18 centimeters (5.9 to 7.1 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/3), pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; low excavation difficulty; 6.0 very fine roots and 8.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 04N02773; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; low excavation difficulty; 6.0 very fine roots and 6.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02774; observed in pit, small
    E'—33 to 38 centimeters (13.0 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), light brown (7.5YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; low excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 5 percent medium prominent spherical yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02775; observed in pit, small
    B/E1—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); 80 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) and 20 percent light reddish brown (5YR 6/3), 20 percent pinkish gray (5YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; low excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine roots between peds and 2.0 medium roots between peds and 1.0 fine roots between peds; 1 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels and 70 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02776; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 255344; patchy - phpvsfiid 255345; continuous - phpvsfiid 255344; patchy - phpvsfiid 255345
    B/E2—51 to 89 centimeters (20.1 to 35.0 inches); 70 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) and 30 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/3) silt loam, silt; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; low excavation difficulty; 0.5 very fine roots between peds and 1.0 medium roots between peds and 0.5 fine roots between peds and 0.1 coarse roots between peds; 1 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay films and 50 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat 10-25-40 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH indicator strip; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02777; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 255346; patchy - phpvsfiid 255347; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 255346; patchy - phpvsfiid 255347
    C—89 to 203 centimeters (35.0 to 79.9 inches); 60 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) and 40 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) stratified stratified silt loam to silt; weak very thick platy structure; low excavation difficulty; 0.4 very fine to coarse roots between peds; 10 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat 10-25-40 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter. Lab sample # 04N02778, 04N05035; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 255348; patchy - phpvsfiid 255348