IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Springport
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: E04MI131018
  • User Pedon ID: S2004MI131018
  • Vegetation Plot ID: E04MI131018
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0189
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16685
  • Print Date: 2/2/2025

    • 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: 46.6959953
  • Std. Longitude: -89.0331650
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: west of Mud Creek Road
  • 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: Steve tardy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, frigid Typic Epiaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 18
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Springport
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, semiactive, frigid Typic Epiaquolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey lacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: alluvial flat
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: frequent ponding for brief periods begining in mar
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/19/2004 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—48

    48—64

    46—48—50

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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

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate coarse granular, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; 4.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; fragments, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01069; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    A—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); 70 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) and 30 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 0.9 very fine pores; 2 percent coarse distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01070; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 1.0 very fine pores; 1 percent distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) silt coats on all faces of peds and 1 percent distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4), moist, sand coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine and medium prominent weak red (2.5YR 4/2), moist, masses of reduced iron on faces of peds and 3 percent medium faint red (2.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01071; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 272958; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 272959; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 272958; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 272959
    C—64 to 152 centimeters (25.2 to 59.8 inches); 60 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) and 40 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/4) stratified stratified silty clay loam to silt loam; massive parts to weak very coarse platy; extremely firm; 25 percent prominent pinkish gray (5YR 6/2), moist, clay films on horizontal faces of peds and 25 percent prominent reddish brown (5YR 5/3), moist, clay films on horizontal faces of peds; 5 percent coarse light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, and white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses and 2 percent coarse greenish gray (5GY 6/1), moist, carbonate masses; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat 75-100-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n, pH meter. Lab sample # 05N01072; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry