IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Paquin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: E03MI131008
  • User Pedon ID: S2003MI131008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: E03MI131008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0461
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16639
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 46.8693237
  • Std. Longitude: -89.0181732
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI131—Ontonagon
  • MLRA: 92—Superior Lake Plain
  • 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: Sandy, mixed, frigid, ortstein Typic Durorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Paquin
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, mixed, frigid, ortstein Typic Durorthods
  • PSC - 15 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy outwash
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/16/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 10035-222
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - 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

    ACRU

    ACSA3

    BEAL2

    BEPA

    CAREX

    DRSP4

    HULU2

    MAST4

    POTR5

    STAM2

    TRBO2

    TSCA

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharum

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Betula papyrifera

    Carex

    Dryopteris spinulosa

    Huperzia lucidula

    Maianthemum stellatum

    Populus tremuloides

    Streptopus amplexifolius

    Trientalis borealis

    Tsuga canadensis

    red maple

    sugar maple

    yellow birch

    paper birch

    sedge

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    shining clubmoss

    starry false lily of the valley

    quaking aspen

    claspleaf twistedstalk

    starflower

    eastern hemlock

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

    ortstein

    moderately coherent

    33 - 69

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    ortstein

    spodic horizon

    cambic horizon

    2—33

    15—33

    33—69

    33—132

    132—183

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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

    2

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    350

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    Oe—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2) moderately decomposed plant material; friable; low excavation difficulty; 10.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02786; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    AE—2 to 15 centimeters (0.8 to 5.9 inches); 2 percent brown (7.5YR 5/3) and 1 percent very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2), 2 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/3) and 1 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dry; sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; low excavation difficulty; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; fragments; ultra acid, pH 3.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02787; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; low excavation difficulty; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots and 6.0 very coarse roots; fragments; ultra acid, pH 3.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02788; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bhsm—33 to 69 centimeters (13.0 to 27.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) sand; strong fine and medium subangular blocky, and strong coarse subangular blocky structure; hard; low excavation difficulty; 4.0 fine and medium roots and 0.9 coarse roots; 10 percent by volume strongly coherent cemented ortstein fragments fragments and 90 percent by volume moderately coherent cemented ortstein fragments fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02789; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs1—69 to 84 centimeters (27.2 to 33.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) sand; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; low excavation difficulty; 3.0 fine and medium roots and 0.8 coarse roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume weakly coherent cemented ortstein fragments fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02790; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bs2—84 to 112 centimeters (33.1 to 44.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) sand; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; low excavation difficulty; 0.8 fine and medium roots; 5 percent by volume weakly coherent cemented ortstein fragments fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02791; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs3—112 to 132 centimeters (44.1 to 52.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sand; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; low excavation difficulty; 0.8 fine roots; 2 percent by volume weakly coherent cemented ortstein fragments fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02792; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—132 to 183 centimeters (52.0 to 72.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) stratified stratified sand to coarse sand to loamy sand; massive; friable; low excavation difficulty; 0.3 fine roots; 25 percent fine and medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter. Lab sample # 04N02793; wet, satiated when described; observed in pit, small