IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oldman
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: U03MI131007
  • User Pedon ID: S2003MI131007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: U03MI131007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0460
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16640
  • 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: 46.8521118
  • Std. Longitude: -89.0160980
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 141D—OLDMAN GRAVELLY SILT LOAM, 8 TO 15 PERCENT SLOPES, 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-G1—Greenland, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scott Eversoll, Ken Wikgren
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, frigid Alfic Fragiorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oldman
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, frigid Alfic Fragiorthods
  • PSC - 13 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/15/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent 250- to 600-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/15/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 10035-222
  • 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

    ACSA3

    ATFI

    CAREX

    CATH2

    DRSP4

    FRAM2

    MACA4

    OSCL

    PHCO24

    POPU4

    POPU4

    RUPA

    STAM2

    TILIA

    TRILL

    TSCA

    VIOLA

    Acer saccharum

    Athyrium filix-femina

    Carex

    Caulophyllum thalictroides

    Dryopteris spinulosa

    Fraxinus americana

    Maianthemum canadense

    Osmorhiza claytonii

    Phegopteris connectilis

    Polygonatum pubescens

    Polygonatum pubescens

    Rubus parviflorus

    Streptopus amplexifolius

    Tilia

    Trillium

    Tsuga canadensis

    Viola

    sugar maple

    common ladyfern

    sedge

    blue cohosh

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    white ash

    Canada mayflower

    Clayton's sweetroot

    long beechfern

    hairy Solomon's seal

    hairy Solomon's seal

    thimbleberry

    claspleaf twistedstalk

    basswood

    trillium

    eastern hemlock

    violet

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

    fragipan

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    84 - 135

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

    ochric epipedon

    spodic horizon

    fragipan

    argillic horizon

    10—13

    13—84

    84—135

    84—135

    0—0—5

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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

    12

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    Oe—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (5YR 2.5/1) moderately decomposed plant material; very friable; low excavation difficulty; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.5, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02779; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—10 to 13 centimeters (3.9 to 5.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2), dry; extremely cobbly sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; high excavation difficulty; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; 5 percent by volume flat 150-250-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 250-350-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume flat 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, pH meter; abrupt broken boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bhs—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) extremely cobbly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; high excavation difficulty; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; 5 percent by volume flat 150-250-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 250-350-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume flat 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02780; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs1—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) extremely cobbly sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; high excavation difficulty; 4.0 very fine to medium roots and 0.9 medium roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 250-350-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume flat 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02781; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs2—51 to 84 centimeters (20.1 to 33.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) extremely cobbly loamy sand; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; high excavation difficulty; 4.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.8 medium roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat 250-350-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02782; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E/Bx—84 to 112 centimeters (33.1 to 44.1 inches); 60 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/3) and 40 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) extremely cobbly fine sandy loam, extremely cobbly very fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak thin platy structure; hard; very high excavation difficulty; 0.7 very fine roots; 3.0 fine vesicular pores; 1 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 15 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on bottom of rock fragments; 30 percent fine and medium faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat 250-350-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 04N02783; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 255359; patchy - phpvsfiid 255360; patchy - phpvsfiid 255359; patchy - phpvsfiid 255360
    E/Bx—112 to 135 centimeters (44.1 to 53.1 inches); 55 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/4) and 45 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/3) extremely cobbly very fine sandy loam, extremely cobbly fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard; very high excavation difficulty; 0.8 fine vesicular pores; 1 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 15 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on bottom of rock fragments; 30 percent fine and medium faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 250-350-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02784; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 255361; patchy - phpvsfiid 255362; patchy - phpvsfiid 255361; patchy - phpvsfiid 255362
    C—135 to 152 centimeters (53.1 to 59.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) extremely cobbly loam; massive; friable; very high excavation difficulty; 20 percent medium and coarse distinct dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2), moist, masses of reduced iron on faces of peds and 40 percent medium and coarse faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 250-350-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter. Lab sample # 04N02785; moist when described; observed in pit, small