IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mongo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: E04MI131009
  • User Pedon ID: S2004MI131009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: E04MI131009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0183
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16683
  • Print Date: 4/21/2025

    • 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: 46.6944962
  • Std. Longitude: -89.0211716
  • 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-F1—McKeever, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scott Eversoll, Bill Anzalone
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Haplic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mongo
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Haplic Glossudalfs
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/9/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey glaciolacustrine deposits
  • Landform: glacial lake
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: riser
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/9/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 10035-226
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    LOTUS

    POA

    TRPR2

    Lotus

    Poa

    Trifolium pratense

    trefoil

    bluegrass

    red clover

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    36—122

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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

    18

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    205

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots and 5.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; fragments, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01032; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    E—18 to 20 centimeters (7.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) and pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments, pH meter; clear broken boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    E/B—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); 70 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) and 30 percent pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2), pink (7.5YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots and 0.1 coarse roots; 2 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 50 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01033; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. continuous - phpvsfiid 272758; patchy - phpvsfiid 272759; continuous - phpvsfiid 272758; patchy - phpvsfiid 272759
    Bt1—36 to 71 centimeters (14.2 to 28.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.2 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.2 fine roots and 0.1 coarse roots; 70 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01034; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. continuous - phpvsfiid 272760; continuous - phpvsfiid 272760
    Bt2—71 to 122 centimeters (28.0 to 48.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 70 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01035; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. continuous - phpvsfiid 272761; continuous - phpvsfiid 272761
    BC—122 to 168 centimeters (48.0 to 66.1 inches); 60 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) and 40 percent brown (7.5YR 4/2) stratified stratified silty clay loam to silt loam; weak coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent faint dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 45 percent faint dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist, pressure faces and 50 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01036; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 272762; patchy - phpvsfiid 272763; continuous - phpvsfiid 272764; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 272762; patchy - phpvsfiid 272763; continuous - phpvsfiid 272764
    C—168 to 203 centimeters (66.1 to 79.9 inches); 85 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) stratified stratified silty clay loam to silt loam; very coarse wedge structure; firm; 5 percent distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 45 percent faint dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist, pressure faces and 50 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2), moist, carbonate masses on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 05N01037; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. very moist looks flowable; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 272766; continuous - phpvsfiid 272765; patchy - phpvsfiid 272767; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 272766; continuous - phpvsfiid 272765; patchy - phpvsfiid 272767