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the woody fragment content averages less than 15 percent by volume in the control
<br /> section. It is very strongly acid to slightly alkaline.
<br /> The organic layers have hue of lOYR, 7.SYR, or SYR, value of 2 to 3, and chroma of 1 to
<br /> 3, or is in 2.5/0. The layers are predominantly muck (sapric material), but in some pedons
<br /> mucky peat (hemic material) has a combined thickness of less than 10 inches and peat
<br />(fibric material) less than 5 inches. Some pedons have coprogenous material or marly
<br /> material below 51 inches
<br /> COMPETING SERIES: These are the Carlisle, Lena, Peteetneet, Saltese, and
<br /> Semiahmoo series. Similar soils are the Adrian, Carbondale, Greenwood, Linwood,
<br /> Lupton, Palms, Rifle, and Willette series. Carlisle soils derived dominantly from woody
<br /> materials and contain an average of 15 to 30 percent woody fragments in the control
<br /> section. Lena soils contain free carbonates throughout. Peteetneet soils are massive or
<br /> platy in bottom tier, are on elevations of about 4,500 feet, and are substantially drier in
<br /> the moisture control section during the 120 days following the summer solstice. Saltese
<br /> and Semiahmoo soils are in areas with mild humid climates. Adrian, Linwood, Palms,
<br /> and Willette soils have a mineral substrata depths ranging from 16 to about 50 inches.
<br /> Carbondale, Greenwood, Lupton, and Rifle soils are frigid.
<br /> GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Houghton soils occupy closed depressions within lake
<br /> plains, outwash plains, ground and end moraines, and on floodplains. Slope gradients are
<br /> less than 2 percent. The mean annual precipitation ranges from about 30 to 42 inches, and
<br /> the mean annual temperature is about 48 to 53 degrees F.
<br /> GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Adrian, Edselton(T),
<br /> Edwards, Moston(T), Muske�o, Palms, and Willette soils. Edselton(T) and Edwards soils
<br /> are underlain by marly material at depths of 16 to 51 inches. Moston(T), and Muskego
<br /> soils are underlain by coprogenous material between 16 and 51 inches. Poorly or very
<br /> poorly drained mineral soils are commonly associated along the margins of the bogs.
<br /> DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Very poorly drained. Depth to the seasonal high
<br /> water table ranges from 2 foot above the surface in ponded phases to 1 foot below the
<br /> surface from September to June. The potential for surface runoff is very slow or ponded.
<br /> Permeability is moderately slow to moderately rapid.
<br /> USE AND VEGETATION: A considerable area of these soils is used for cropland or
<br /> pasture. Common crops are onions, lettuce, potatoes, celery, radishes, carrots, mint, and
<br /> some corn. Native vegetation was primarily of marsh grasses, sedges, reeds, buttonbrush,
<br /> and cattails. Some water-tolerant trees were near the margin of the bog.
<br /> DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: MLRA 95, 98, 110, 111. Southern part of the lower
<br /> peninsula of Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, and Illinois. The series is
<br /> of large extent.
<br /> MLRA OFFICE RESPONSIBLE: Indianapolis, Indiana
<br /> SERIES ESTABLISHED: Roscommon County, Michigan, 1924.
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