IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Michigamme
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005MI083002
  • User Pedon ID: S2005MI083002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005MI083002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06NO527
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 47.9070549
  • Std. Longitude: -89.1587219
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 64N
  • Range: 38W
  • Section: 32
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI083—Keweenaw
  • MLRA: 93B—Superior Stony and Rocky Loamy Plains and Hills
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI605—Keweenaw County Area, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47089-H2—Windigo, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Chuck Schwenner, Dan Wing
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Michigamme
  • PSC - 25 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Michigamme
  • Classificaton Date - 6/25/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gravelly supraglacial till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: bedrock controlled moraine
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated basalt at 66cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/25/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    ACSP2

    ARNU2

    BEAL2

    BEPA

    CLBO3

    COCA13

    DRSP4

    GYDR

    LOCA7

    MACA4

    PIGL

    SORBU

    THOC2

    VIOLA

    Abies balsamea

    Acer spicatum

    Aralia nudicaulis

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Betula papyrifera

    Clintonia borealis

    Cornus canadensis

    Dryopteris spinulosa

    Gymnocarpium dryopteris

    Lonicera canadensis

    Maianthemum canadense

    Picea glauca

    Sorbus

    Thuja occidentalis

    Viola

    balsam fir

    mountain maple

    wild sarsaparilla

    yellow birch

    paper birch

    bluebead

    bunchberry dogwood

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    western oakfern

    American fly honeysuckle

    Canada mayflower

    white spruce

    mountain ash

    arborvitae

    violet

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    66 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    spodic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—13

    13—66

    66—

    —13—

    —53—

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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

    45

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    221

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    350

    810

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    110

    5

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; gravelly silt loam; moderate medium granular, and moderate fine granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 5.0 coarse roots throughout; 3 percent by volume indurated 75-100-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bhs1—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak very fine granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; 5 percent worm casts throughout; 3 percent by volume indurated 75-100-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.9, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bhs2—30 to 66 centimeters (11.8 to 26.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent worm casts throughout; 3 percent by volume indurated 75-100-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume indurated 2-30-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—66 centimeters (26.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small