IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Spear
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: E04MI131002
  • User Pedon ID: S2004MI131002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: E04MI131002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0179
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16681
  • 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: 46.8752747
  • Std. Longitude: -89.0642395
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 141F—PORKIES GRAVELLY SILT LOAM, 35 TO 70 PERCENT SLOPES, STONY
  • 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: 46089-H1—Four Corners, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Eric Gano, Scott Eversoll, Bill Anzalone
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Aquic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Spear
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Aquic Glossudalfs
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/6/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-silty glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/6/2004 (entry creation date)
  • 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

    ABBA

    ACRU

    ACSA3

    ASMA2

    ATFI

    BEAL2

    CAREX

    CLBO3

    EQUIS

    GYDR

    MIRE

    PIGL

    POTR5

    STREP3

    TIAM

    TRILL

    TSCA

    VIOLA

    WAFR

    Abies balsamea

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharum

    Aster macrophyllus

    Athyrium filix-femina

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Carex

    Clintonia borealis

    Equisetum

    Gymnocarpium dryopteris

    Mitchella repens

    Picea glauca

    Populus tremuloides

    Streptopus

    Tilia americana

    Trillium

    Tsuga canadensis

    Viola

    Waldsteinia fragarioides

    balsam fir

    red maple

    sugar maple

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    common ladyfern

    yellow birch

    sedge

    bluebead

    horsetail

    western oakfern

    partridgeberry

    white spruce

    quaking aspen

    twistedstalk

    American basswood

    trillium

    eastern hemlock

    violet

    Appalachian barren strawberry

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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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    239

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    160

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate very fine and fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01003; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    E—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; gradual broken boundary. Lab sample # 05N01004; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    E/B—10 to 36 centimeters (3.9 to 14.2 inches); 60 percent brown (7.5YR 5/3) and 40 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky parts to weak thin platy structure; friable; 8.0 very fine to medium roots; 1 percent medium distinct gray (5YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions on faces of peds and 10 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01005; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    B/E1—36 to 66 centimeters (14.2 to 26.0 inches); 60 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 40 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/4), pink (7.5YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky parts to weak thin platy structure; friable; 1.0 very fine to medium roots; 4 percent prominent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist,; 10 percent prominent light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), moist, carbonate masses; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01006; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. continuous - phpvsfiid 272749; continuous - phpvsfiid 272749
    B/E2—66 to 127 centimeters (26.0 to 50.0 inches); 60 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 40 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/3), pinkish gray (5YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; moderate thin platy structure; friable; 0.9 fine roots; 4 percent prominent organoargillans on all faces of peds; 10 percent light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), moist, carbonate masses; 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01007; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. continuous - phpvsfiid 272750; continuous - phpvsfiid 272750
    C—127 to 203 centimeters (50.0 to 79.9 inches); 70 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/3) and 20 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) and 10 percent dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) stratified stratified silty clay loam to silt loam to very fine sandy loam; moderate thin platy structure; friable; 0.9 fine roots; 10 percent light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), moist, and light greenish gray (10Y 7/1), moist, carbonate masses; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH meter. Lab sample # 05N01008; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry