LOCATION TYRE MI
Established Series
Rev. LHL-NWS
08/2012
TYRE SERIES
The Tyre series consists of moderately deep, somewhat poorly drained soils formed in sandy drift and the underlying residuum weathered from sandstone bedrock. Tyre soils are on till plains and outwash plains. Slope ranges from 0 to 6 percent. Mean annual precipitation is about 838 mm (33 inches), and mean annual temperature is about 8.9 degrees C (48 degrees F).
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Mixed, mesic Typic Psammaquents
TYPICAL PEDON: Tyre loamy sand, on a 1 percent slope in an unimproved pasture on a till plain. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise stated.)
A--0 to 5 cm (2 inches); black (N 2.5/) loamy sand; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; many fine roots; about 10 percent cobbles; strongly acid; abrupt wavy boundary. [2 to 10 cm (1 to 4 inches) thick]
Bg--5 to 13 cm (2 to 5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loamy sand; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; common fine roots; 10 percent cobbles; moderately acid; clear wavy boundary. [5 to 41 cm (2 to 16 inches) thick]
C1--13 to 30 cm (5 to 12 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; few fine roots; 10 percent cobbles; slightly acid; clear wavy boundary. [0 to 25 cm (10 inches) thick]
C2--30 to 46 cm (12 to 18 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; few fine roots; common medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent cobbles; neutral; clear broken boundary. [0 to 25 cm (10 inches) thick]
Cg--46 to 64 cm (18 to 25 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) cobbly sand; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) bands; single grain; loose; 30 percent cobbles; neutral; diffuse wavy boundary. [0 to 25 cm (10 inches) thick]
Cr--64 to 81 cm (25 to 32 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) weathered sandstone; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) bands; massive; friable; neutral; diffuse wavy boundary. [0 to 51 cm (20 inches) thick]
R--81 to 107 cm (32 to 42 inches); sandstone bedrock.
TYPE LOCATION: Huron County, Michigan; about 4 miles north and 4 miles east of Kinde; 2,145 feet west and 1,100 feet north of the southeast corner of sec. 11, T. 18 N., R. 13 E.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Thickness of the solum: 13 to 46 cm (5 to 18 inches)
Depth to a lithic contact: 50 to 102 cm (20 to 40 inches)
Reaction: strongly acid to neutral throughout the solum
Rock fragments: less than 15 percent in the upper part and 15 to 34 percent immediately above the bedrock
Mean annual soil temperature: 8.3 to 11.1 degrees C (47 to 52 degrees F)
A horizon:
Hue: 10YR or is neutral
Value: 2 or 2.5
Chroma: 0 to 2
Texture: sand or loamy sand
B horizon and C horizon:
Hue: 10YR to 5Y
Value: 4 to 7
Chroma: 1 to 3
Redoximorphic features: few to many, fine to coarse, faint to prominent with hues of 7.5YR or 10YR, values of 5 or 6, and chromas of 3 through 8
Texture: typically sand or cobbly sand but may be loamy sand or cobbly loamy sand
COMPETING SERIES: These are the
Arloval,
Barron (T),
Carrolls,
Conrad,
Dair,
Forbar,
Gothenburg,
Jamaica (T),
Junius,
Norway,
Stafford,
Tihonet,
Tryon, and
Wanser series. None of these series have a lithic contact within a depth of 102 cm (40 inches).
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Tyre soils are on till plains and outwash plains of Wisconsinan age. Slope ranges from 0 to 6 percent. The Tyre soils formed in acid drift and the underlying sandstone residuum. Climate is humid-continental. Mean annual precipitation ranges from 737 to 940 mm (29 to 37 inches). Mean annual temperature ranges from 7.2 to 10.0 degrees C (45 to 50 degrees F).
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the very deep
Badaxe soils that formed in sandy loam material overlying loamy till.
DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY: Somewhat poorly drained. Potential for surface runoff is negligible to low. Saturated hydraulic conductivity is high above the bedrock. Permeability is moderately rapid above the bedrock.
USE AND VEGETATION: These soils are primarily in woodland and pasture. Dominant species are quaking aspen, white birch, red maple and willows.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: MLRA 99 in the thumb of lower Michigan. The series is of small extent.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Sanilac County, Michigan; 1955.
REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are:
Ochric epipedon: from the surface to a depth of 5 cm (2 inches) (A horizon).
Paralithic contact: at 64 cm (25 inches) (top of the Cr horizon).
Lithic contact: at 81 cm (32 inches) (top of the R layer).
Aquic conditions: reduced matrix colors and redoximorphic features present in all horizons underlying the A horizon.
National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.