IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Platteriver
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: F2006MI121003
  • User Pedon ID: F2006MI121003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: F2006MI121003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0380
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18886
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 43.3660000
  • Std. Longitude: -86.1202778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 15W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4 of NE1/4 of NE1/4
  • Map Unit: Sp—Sparta sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI121—Muskegon
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI121—Muskegon County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43086-C1—Wolf Lake, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Matt Bromley, Scott Eversoll
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Oxyaquic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Platteriver
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/16/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Covert
  • Classificaton Date - 8/9/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy outwash
  • Landform: pitted outwash plain
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/9/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    1—8

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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

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    200

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); 75 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 25 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4), pink (7.5YR 7/3), dry; slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    AE—1 to 8 centimeters (0.4 to 3.1 inches); 75 percent very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) and 25 percent pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), 75 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 25 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; sand; very friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 0.9 coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bs1—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sand; very friable; 2.0 very fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 0.9 coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bs2—18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) sand; very friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 0.9 coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bs3—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sand; very friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 0.9 coarse roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    BC—66 to 89 centimeters (26.0 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sand; loose; 0.9 medium roots and 0.9 coarse roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C—89 to 208 centimeters (35.0 to 81.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sand; loose; 2 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter.; observed in pit, small