IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Udorthents
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: E03MI131009
  • User Pedon ID: S2003MI131009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: E03MI131009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0462
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16638
  • 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: 46.7121429
  • Std. Longitude: -89.2128296
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Escarpment along Ontonagon River
  • Map Unit: 155F—ROCKLAND SILT LOAM, 35 TO 70 PERCENT SLOPES
  • 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-F2—Rockland, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bill Anzalone, Eric Gano
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, frigid Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Udorthents
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, frigid Udorthents
  • PSC - 25 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: silty colluvium
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: slump
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: riser
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: 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: 10042-47
  • 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

    ACPA

    ACSA3

    ARNU2

    ASMA2

    ATFI

    BEAL2

    BEPA

    CAREX

    CLBO3

    DRSP4

    EQUIS

    EUSID

    FRPE

    GYDR

    JUVI

    LOCA7

    MIRE

    RUPA

    STAM2

    TRBO2

    TRILL

    TSCA

    Abies balsamea

    Actaea pachypoda

    Acer saccharum

    Aralia nudicaulis

    Aster macrophyllus

    Athyrium filix-femina

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Betula papyrifera

    Carex

    Clintonia borealis

    Dryopteris spinulosa

    Equisetum

    Eusideroxylon

    Fraxinus pennsylvanica

    Gymnocarpium dryopteris

    Juniperus virginiana

    Lonicera canadensis

    Mitchella repens

    Rubus parviflorus

    Streptopus amplexifolius

    Trientalis borealis

    Trillium

    Tsuga canadensis

    balsam fir

    white baneberry

    sugar maple

    wild sarsaparilla

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    common ladyfern

    yellow birch

    paper birch

    sedge

    bluebead

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    horsetail

    ironwood

    green ash

    western oakfern

    eastern redcedar

    American fly honeysuckle

    partridgeberry

    thimbleberry

    claspleaf twistedstalk

    starflower

    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—10

    10—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

    63

    150

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    60

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; low excavation difficulty; 5.0 very fine and fine roots and 5.0 medium roots and 1.0 coarse roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02794; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—10 to 56 centimeters (3.9 to 22.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine to medium roots and 0.1 coarse roots; 5 percent faint dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels and 60 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02795; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 255372; patchy - phpvsfiid 255371; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 255372; patchy - phpvsfiid 255371
    C2—56 to 127 centimeters (22.0 to 50.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) silt loam; weak thick platy structure; friable; moderate excavation difficulty; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 10 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 20 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.3, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02796; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 255373; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 255374; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 255373; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 255374
    C3—127 to 175 centimeters (50.0 to 68.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate excavation difficulty; 0.1 fine and medium roots; 2 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 20 percent faint dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.3, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02797; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 255375; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 255376; patchy - phpvsfiid 255375; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 255376
    C4—175 to 203 centimeters (68.9 to 79.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate excavation difficulty; 5 percent coarse distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume wood fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter. Lab sample # 04N02798; moist when described; observed in pit, small