IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rubicon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011MI041002
  • User Pedon ID: S2011MI041002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2011MI041002
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 94B - Delta County Recorrelation Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/8/2025

    • 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: 45.9426333
  • Std. Longitude: -86.9047389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 41N
  • Range: 21W
  • Section: 14
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI041—Delta
  • MLRA: 94B—Michigan Eastern Upper Peninsula Sandy Glacial Deposits
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI601—Delta County and Hiawatha National Forest of Alger and Schoolcraft Counties, MichiganMI041—Delta County, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LMC, KRW, JG
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, frigid Entic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rubicon
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, mixed, frigid Entic Haplorthods
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/30/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • 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: sandy glaciolacustrine deposits derived from igneous rock
  • Landform: lake plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/30/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • 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

    ACRU

    CAPE6

    CLMI60

    CLRA60

    COPE80

    GAPR2

    PIBA2

    PIGL

    PIRE

    PLSC70

    POGR4

    PRSE2

    PTAQ

    QURU

    VAAN

    VAMY

    Acer rubrum

    Carex pensylvanica

    Cladina mitis

    Cladina rangiferina

    Comptonia peregrina

    Gaultheria procumbens

    Pinus banksiana

    Picea glauca

    Pinus resinosa

    Pleurozium schreberi

    Populus grandidentata

    Prunus serotina

    Pteridium aquilinum

    Quercus rubra

    Vaccinium angustifolium

    Vaccinium myrtilloides

    red maple

    Pennsylvania sedge

    reindeer lichen

    greygreen reindeer lichen

    sweet fern

    eastern teaberry

    jack pine

    white spruce

    red pine

    Schreber's big red stem moss

    bigtooth aspen

    black cherry

    western brackenfern

    northern red oak

    lowbush blueberry

    velvetleaf huckleberry

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

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    8—16

    16—35

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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

    5

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    60

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    Oe—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) moderately decomposed plant material; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 5.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary.
    AE—2 to 8 centimeters (0.8 to 3.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and gray (10YR 6/1) sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.0 very fine roots and 5.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots and 5.0 coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.
    E—8 to 16 centimeters (3.1 to 6.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 5.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.
    Bs1—16 to 20 centimeters (6.3 to 7.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent extremely coarse prominent cylindrical moderately coherent cemented ortstein nodules with clear boundaries on surfaces along root channels; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.9, pH meter; abrupt broken boundary.
    Bs2—20 to 35 centimeters (7.9 to 13.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, pH meter; gradual irregular boundary.
    BC—35 to 75 centimeters (13.8 to 29.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.2 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; gradual irregular boundary.
    C—75 to 203 centimeters (29.5 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sand; structureless single grain; loose; 0.2 very fine roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter.