Elevations range from 800 to 1,600 feet. F. The frost free period ranges from 100 to 130 days. Garlic soils are associated with Alcona , Voelker , and Kalkaska soils on similar landscape positions and Borgstrom soils on lower landscape positions and in drainageways. The well drained Alcona soils formed in stratified sandy and loamy deposits, and the somewhat excessively drained Kalkaska soils formed in sandy glacial deposits and is medium sand throughout the profile. Runoff is very slow to medium, depending on slope.
Permeability is rapid.
Nearly all of this soil is forested. Tree species include sugar maple, red maple, yellow birch, paper birch, hemlock, and quaking aspen. Central Upper Peninsula of Michigan, MLRA 93. The series is of moderate extent. Marquette County, Michigan, 1998.