IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Prochaska
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: F2008MI121F201
  • User Pedon ID: F2008MI121F201
  • Vegetation Plot ID: F2008MI121F201
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0209
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24109
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 43.1620556
  • Std. Longitude: -86.0820556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 15W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4 of SW1/4 of SW1/4
  • Map Unit: Sa—Saranac loam
  • 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: Erin Segar, Matt Bromley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Prochaska
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, mixed, mesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/14/2008
  • 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 alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain on lake plain
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for long periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/14/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    ACSA2

    CACA18

    OSCI

    TSCA

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharinum

    Carpinus caroliniana

    Osmunda cinnamomea

    Tsuga canadensis

    red maple

    silver maple

    American hornbeam

    cinnamon fern

    eastern hemlock

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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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    189

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    A—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) stratified stratified muck to mucky loamy sand; prominent masses of oxidized iron; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket. Redox starts at 5 inches.
    A/C—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); stratified stratified muck to sand to mucky loamy sand; prominent masses of oxidized iron; fragments.; wet, satiated when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Cg1—56 to 147 centimeters (22.0 to 57.9 inches); stratified stratified muck to sand to mucky loamy sand; prominent masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume wood fragments.; wet, satiated when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Cg2—147 to 178 centimeters (57.9 to 70.1 inches); stratified stratified muck to coarse sand to fine sand; 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume wood fragments.; wet, satiated when described; observed in auger, bucket