IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kingsville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MI139009
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MI139009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: F2008MI139009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0203
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24103
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 42.9145833
  • Std. Longitude: -86.1469444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 16W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4 of SW 1/4 of SE 1/4
  • Map Unit: Gn—Granby fine sandy loam, lake plain, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI139—Ottawa
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI139—Ottawa County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42086-H2—Port Sheldon, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Erin Lynn Segar, Matt Bromley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Mollic Psammaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kingsville
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, mesic Mollic Psammaquents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/18/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy lacustrine deposits
  • Landform: lake plain
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: frequent ponding for brief periods begining in apr
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/18/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - 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

    FRPE

    LIBE3

    PAQU2

    VITIS

    Acer rubrum

    Fraxinus pennsylvanica

    Lindera benzoin

    Parthenocissus quinquefolia

    Vitis

    red maple

    green ash

    northern spicebush

    Virginia creeper

    grape

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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

    1

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    183

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; mucky sand; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. pH's were taken in the MLRA lab after description date.; Sieving in MLRA lab confirmed original texture field estimate of medium sand.
    A2—10 to 15 centimeters (3.9 to 5.9 inches); 60 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 10 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), 90 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 10 percent light gray (10YR 7/1), dry; sand; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; clear broken boundary.; observed in pit, small. pH's were taken in the MLRA lab after description date.; Horizon exists in 36 out of 40'' in pit face.
    C1—15 to 41 centimeters (5.9 to 16.1 inches); 80 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and 20 percent gray (10YR 6/1) sand; weak medium subangular blocky parts to single grain; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5 percent prominent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organic stains; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter.; observed in pit, small. Rupture moist is very friable and loose.; pH's were taken in the MLRA lab after description date.; Sieving in MLRA lab confirmed original texture field estimate of medium sand.; patchy - phpvsfiid 420301; patchy - phpvsfiid 420301
    C2—41 to 79 centimeters (16.1 to 31.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) sand; single grain; loose; 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-55-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter.; observed in auger, bucket. pH's were taken in the MLRA lab after description date.; Sieving in MLRA lab confirmed original texture field estimate of medium sand.
    C3—79 to 114 centimeters (31.1 to 44.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) stratified stratified coarse sand to sand; single grain; loose; 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-55-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter.; observed in auger, bucket. pH's were taken in the MLRA lab after description date.; Sieving in MLRA lab confirmed original texture field estimate of medium sand.; Gravel band 35-37 inches was coarse sand with 3% gravels. Three inches of the material throughout the horizon.
    C4—114 to 142 centimeters (44.9 to 55.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-55-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter.; observed in auger, bucket. pH's were taken in the MLRA lab after description date.; Sieving in MLRA lab confirmed original texture field estimate of medium sand.