IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Covert
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: F2008MI121016
  • User Pedon ID: F2008MI121016
  • Vegetation Plot ID: F2008MI121016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0669
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23975
  • Print Date: 1/26/2025

    • 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: 43.1546669
  • Std. Longitude: -86.0007782
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 14W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4 of SW1/4
  • 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
  • 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, isotic, mesic Aquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Covert
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/20/2009
  • Classifier - Steve Tardy
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Covert
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, mixed, mesic Oxyaquic Haplorthods
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/24/2008
  • Classifier - Matt Bromley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy glaciolacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: beach ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/24/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Matt Bromley
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • 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

    FAGR

    MACA4

    PIRE

    QUAL

    RUFL

    SAAL5

    Acer rubrum

    Fagus grandifolia

    Maianthemum canadense

    Pinus resinosa

    Quercus alba

    Rubus flagellaris

    Sassafras albidum

    red maple

    American beech

    Canada mayflower

    red pine

    white oak

    northern dewberry

    sassafras

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    6/24/2008

    102

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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

    5

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    201

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    Oa—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); highly decomposed plant material; fragments; ultra acid, pH 3.0, pH meter 1:2 calcium chloride; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. pH's were taken in the MLRA lab after description date.
    A—2 to 25 centimeters (0.8 to 9.8 inches); 93 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) and 5 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/3) and 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; very firm; rapid permeability; 10.0 very fine roots and 4.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 0 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. Original field estimate of texture was medium sand. Changed to fine sand after sieving a sample in the MLRA lab.; pH's were taken in the MLRA lab after description date.
    E—25 to 30 centimeters (9.8 to 11.8 inches); 70 percent pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) and 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), light gray (7.5YR 7/1), dry; fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; rapid permeability; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; abrupt broken boundary.; observed in pit, small. Original field estimate of texture was medium sand. Changed to fine sand after sieving a sample in the MLRA lab.; pH's were taken in the MLRA lab after description date.
    Bs1—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); 40 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 30 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) and 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine sand; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; rapid permeability; 0.5 very fine roots and 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 0 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume moderately coherent cemented ortstein fragments fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear irregular boundary.; observed in pit, small. Original field estimate of texture was medium sand. Changed to fine sand after sieving a sample in the MLRA lab.; pH's were taken in the MLRA lab after description date.; Orstien color 2.5YR 3/2 and 3/3
    Bs2—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); 80 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 20 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 0 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. Original field estimate of texture was medium sand. Changed to fine sand after sieving a sample in the MLRA lab.; pH's were taken in the MLRA lab after description date.
    Bs3—66 to 99 centimeters (26.0 to 39.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) fine sand; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented red (2.5YR 4/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 0 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. Original field estimate of texture was medium sand. Changed to fine sand after sieving a sample in the MLRA lab.; pH's were taken in the MLRA lab after description date.; 10% sand pockets of 10YR 4/2
    BC—99 to 119 centimeters (39.0 to 46.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; rapid permeability; 5 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented 5YR 3/6 (5YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 0 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. Original field estimate of texture was medium sand. Changed to fine sand after sieving a sample in the MLRA lab.; pH's were taken in the MLRA lab after description date.
    2BC—119 to 211 centimeters (46.9 to 83.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) sand, fine sand, loamy fine sand, fine sandy loam, loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky structure; friable; moderately rapid permeability; 5 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions and 15 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 30 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 0 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter.; observed in pit, small. Sieving in MLRA lab showed FSL texture and hydrometer in lab showed SL.; pH's were taken in the MLRA lab after description date.