IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Adrian
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2009MI121004
  • User Pedon ID: 2009MI121004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2009MI121004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0100
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24936
  • User Project ID: 2024GRR028
  • Project Name: EVAL - MLRA 97 - Oakville-Adrian complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 43.2095261
  • Std. Longitude: -86.1081924
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 15W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4 of NE1/4 of SE1/4
  • Location Description: 356 feet West and 1477 feet North of Southeast corner
  • Map Unit: CovabB—Covert-Pipestone sands, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI121—Muskegon
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-GRP—Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI121—Muskegon County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43086-B1—Sullivan, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Matt Bromley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, euic, mesic Terric Haplohemists
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Adrian
  • PSC - 76 to 130 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/15/2013
  • Classifier - MZ
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: organic material over sandy alluvium
  • Landform: lake plain
  • Microfeature: hummock
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: dip
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: rare flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: frequent ponding for very long periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/28/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and 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

    GALIU

    HAMAM

    MACA4

    ONSE

    OSCI

    PIST

    SOLID

    TILIA

    TSCA

    ULMUS

    Acer rubrum

    Fraxinus pennsylvanica

    Galium

    Hamamelis

    Maianthemum canadense

    Onoclea sensibilis

    Osmunda cinnamomea

    Pinus strobus

    Solidago

    Tilia

    Tsuga canadensis

    Ulmus

    red maple

    green ash

    bedstraw

    witchhazel

    Canada mayflower

    sensitive fern

    cinnamon fern

    eastern white pine

    goldenrod

    basswood

    eastern hemlock

    elm

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    sapric soil materials

    0—76

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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

    0

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    192

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    Oa1—0 to 39 centimeters (0.0 to 15.4 inches); black (10YR 2/1) muck; moderate coarse granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 medium roots throughout and 15.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 1 percent by volume wood fragments. Lab sample # 10N00358; observed in pit, small
    Oa2—39 to 76 centimeters (15.4 to 29.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) muck; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume wood fragments. Lab sample # 10N00359; observed in pit, small
    C—76 to 156 centimeters (29.9 to 61.4 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) stratified stratified fine sand to sand to coarse sand; single grain; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 10N00360; wet, satiated when described; observed in auger, bucket