LOCATION DUCK MIEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Mixed, frigid Oxyaquic Udipsamments
TYPICAL PEDON: Duck fine sandy loam from an area of Wurtsmith-Duck-Rubicon complex, 0 to 15 percent slopes at an elevation of 225 meters in a forested area. (Colors are for moist soils unless otherwise stated.)
Oe--0 to 2 centimeters; partially decomposed forest litter.
A--2 to 15 centimeters; dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3) fine sandy loam, weak red (2.5YR 4/2) dry; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; common fine and medium roots; very strongly acid; abrupt smooth boundary. (2 to 13 centimeters thick)
2Bw--15 to 38 centimeters; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; common fine and medium roots; very strongly acid; clear smooth boundary. (0 to 38 centimeters thick)
2C1--38 to 66 centimeters; brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) sand; single grain; loose; few fine and medium roots; strongly acid; gradual wavy boundary. (0 to 51 centimeters thick)
2C2--66 to 203 centimeters; very pale brown (10YR 7/3) sand; single grain; loose; few fine roots; common fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) iron accumulations throughout; about 5 percent gravel; moderately acid.
TYPE LOCATION: Major Land Resource Area 94B Michigan Eastern Upper Peninsula Sandy Drift, Schoolcraft County Michigan Subset; about 12 miles southeast of Shingleton; 1200 feet south and 2200 feet west of the northeast corner of sec. 36, T. 45 N., R. 16W., USGS Walsh topographic quadrangle; lat. 46 degrees 15 minutes, 21.5 seconds N. and long. 86 degrees 14 minutes 57.1 seconds W.; Hiawatha Township.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Gravel content - 0 to 5 percent throughout
Depth to redoximorphic features - 64 to 102 centimeters
Clay content, loamy surface - 7 to 15 percent
A horizon:
Hue - 2.5YR to 5YR
Chroma - 2 to 4
Texture - fine sandy loam or sandy loam
Reaction - extremely acid to very strongly acid
2Bw horizon:
Hue - 10YR to 5YR
Value - 3 to 5
Chroma - 3 to 6
Texture - sand or loamy sand
Concentrations of bog iron - 0 to 10 percent
Reaction - extremely acid to very strongly acid
2C horizon:
Value - 5 to 7
Chroma - 3 to 8
Texture - sand or fine sand
Reaction - extremely acid to slightly acid
COMPETING SERIES: These are the
Crex,
Lenroot,
Mooers,
Pelkie, Seulchoix (tentative),
Sissabagama,
Sunia,
Tourtillotte and
Wurtsmith series.
None of these soils allow a loamy red surface layer containing 7 to 15 percent hydrous oxide clays.
Crex - average 50 percent or more fine sand in the particle-size control section.
Lenroot - average 15 to 35 percent gravel in the control section.
Mooers - have greater than 50 percent fine sand and very fine sand in the lower part of the series control section.
Pelkie - have an irregular decrease in organic carbon with depth.
Seulchoix Data to compete Seulchoix is not yet available (June 2007).
Sissabagama and Tourtillotte - have greater than 15 percent combined silt and clay below 102 centimeters.
Sunia - have a Bw horizon with greater than 15 percent combined silt and clay and up to 15 percent gravel in the underlying sandy outwash.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
Parent Material - sandy alluvium
Landform - stream terraces
Slope - 0 to 6 percent
Mean annual precipitation - 710 to 810 millimeters
Mean annual air temperature - 3 to 5 degrees C.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the
Deford,
Hiawatha,
Halfaday,
Rubicon,
Seney, and
Wurtsmith soils.
Deford are in depressions and in the Typic Psammaquents subgroup.
Halfaday - are on low knolls and ridges and in the Oxyaquic Haplorthods subgroup.
Seney are in slightly lower landscape positions and in the Typic Psammaquents subgroup.
Hiawatha - are on slightly higher landscape positions and in the Typic Udipsamments subgroup.
Rubicon - are on ridges and knolls and in the Entic Haplorthods subgroup.
Wurtsmith - are on low knolls and ridges.
DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY:
Drainage - are water saturated from 64 to 102 centimeters below the surface in October, November, March, April, May, and June (moderately well drained).
Surface runoff - very low.
Saturated hydraulic conductivity - moderately high or high in the loamy surface and high or very high in the rest of the soil
Flooding frequency - occasional
USE AND VEGETATION: Most of this soil is forested. Major tree species are red maple, sugar maple, American beech, red pine, and white pine. Common ground plants include shield fern, wild-lily-of- the-valley, bunchberry, low sweet blueberry, starflower, and bracken fern.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:
Physiographic Division
--Interior Plains
Physiographic Province
--Central Lowland
Physiographic Section
--Eastern Lake
Land Resource Region
--Northern Lake States Forest and Forage region (LRR K)
Major Land Resource Area
--Michigan Eastern Upper Peninsula Sandy Drift (MLRA 94B)
The series is of small extent.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: St. Paul, Minnesota
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Major Land Resource Area 94B Michigan Eastern Upper Peninsula Sandy Drift; Schoolcraft County Michigan Subset, December 2006.
Proposed in Schoolcraft County, Michigan, 2002. Source of name is a creek in Schoolcraft County, Michigan.
REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in the typical pedon are: Ochric epipedon - 0 to 15 centimeters (Oe and A horizons)
Water saturation within 100 centimeters of the surface.
ADDITIONAL DATA: The pedon descriptions supporting this series concept are stored in NASIS.