IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Algonquin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: E04MI131021
  • User Pedon ID: S2004MI131021
  • Vegetation Plot ID: E04MI131021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0191
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16686
  • 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: 46.7442017
  • Std. Longitude: -89.0581665
  • 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: Bill Anzalone
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, frigid Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 21
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Algonquin
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, semiactive, frigid Aquic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 25 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/2/2004
  • 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
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/2/2004 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    glossic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—23

    23—43

    76—79

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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

    3

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    130

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), light reddish brown (5YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; moderate coarse granular structure; friable; 5.0 very fine roots and 5.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N01078; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BE—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), pinkish gray (5YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; moderate coarse angular blocky parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent coarse distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N01079; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 272972; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 272972
    EandB—43 to 76 centimeters (16.9 to 29.9 inches); 85 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 15 percent red (2.5YR 4/6), pinkish gray (5YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; moderate very coarse angular blocky parts to moderate thick platy structure; friable; 0.3 very fine roots and 0.2 medium roots and 0.3 fine roots; 2 percent faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 50 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium faint yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N01080; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 272973; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 272974; continuous - phpvsfiid 272973; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 272974
    Bt—76 to 99 centimeters (29.9 to 39.0 inches); 60 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) and 40 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/4) stratified stratified silt loam to silty clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic parts to weak thick platy structure; firm; 0.2 very fine roots and 0.2 fine roots; 30 percent faint reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 50 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent light greenish gray (5GY 7/1), moist, masses of reduced iron on surfaces along pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N01081; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 272975; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 272976; continuous - phpvsfiid 272975; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 272976
    C—99 to 203 centimeters (39.0 to 79.9 inches); stratified stratified silt loam to silty clay loam; firm; 0.1 medium roots and 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 05N01082; moist when described; observed in pit, small