IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Houghton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980MI073005
  • User Pedon ID: S1980MI073005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1980MI073005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MTU
  • Lab Pedon # - S80MI-73-5
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69082
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 43.6187833
  • Std. Longitude: -85.0312417
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 2200 ft S and 1050 ft W of the NE corner
  • Location Description: Broomfield Township
  • Map Unit: 10—Pinnebog muck
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI073—Isabella
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-GRP—Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI073—Isabella County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43085-E1—Blanchard, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Johnson, G. LeMasters, & R. McLeese
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Euic, mesic Typic Haplosaprists
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Houghton
  • Classificaton Date - 3/6/2013
  • Classifier - M. Bromley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Houghton
  • Taxonomic Class - Euic, mesic Typic Medisaprists
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1980
  • Classifier - G. LeMasters, B. McLeese
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: herbaceous organic material over woody organic material over herbaceous organic material
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: concave depression on outwash plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/16/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Erik Johnson, Robert McCleese, & Gary LeMasters
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • 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

    ACRU

    BEPA

    POTR5

    THOC2

    TSCA

    Acer rubrum

    Betula papyrifera

    Populus tremuloides

    Thuja occidentalis

    Tsuga canadensis

    red maple

    paper birch

    quaking aspen

    arborvitae

    eastern hemlock

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

    sapric soil materials

    0—152

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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

    0

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    279.7

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    809

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    161

    8

    20.3

    -4.8

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    Central Michigan University

    COOP
    Oa1—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); 7.5YR 2/ (7.5YR 2/), rubbed and 7.5YR 2/ (7.5YR 2/), broken face muck; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky; many fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MTU80206, MTU80207
    Oa2—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); 7.5YR 2/ (7.5YR 2/), rubbed and 7.5YR 2/ (7.5YR 2/), broken face muck; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; 25 percent by volume wood fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MTU80208; wet when described;
    Oa3—51 to 152 centimeters (20.1 to 59.8 inches); black (7.5YR 2/1) broken face and black (7.5YR 2/1) rubbed muck; massive; very friable, nonsticky; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified. Lab sample # MTU80209; wet when described;