IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Spinks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010MI117001
  • User Pedon ID: F2010MI117001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: F2010MI117001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0153
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43429
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 43.2637778
  • Std. Longitude: -85.0831111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 07W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4 of NW1/4 of NE1/4
  • Map Unit: PlfaeB—Plainfield-Spinks sands, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI117—Montcalm
  • 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: MI117—Montcalm County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43085-C1—Stanton, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Matt Bromley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Lamellic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Spinks
  • PSC - 127 to 200 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/3/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Spinks
  • Classificaton Date - 9/29/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: glacial drainage channel
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Pattern: deranged
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/29/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Marc Zucco
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    ASCLE

    ASLA6

    BRASS2

    ELAN

    RUID

    SOLAN

    Asclepias

    Aster lateriflorus

    Brassica

    Elaeagnus angustifolia

    Rubus idaeus

    Solanum

    milkweed

    —

    mustard

    Russian olive

    American red raspberry

    nightshade

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

    ochric epipedon

    glossic horizon

    lamellae

    0—

    50—

    83—

    28—-

    83—-

    190—-
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    9/29/2010

    9/29/2010

    50

    100

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    16

    17
    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

    150

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    262

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) sand, sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N00706; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—28 to 50 centimeters (11.0 to 19.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 very fine roots; 4 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N00707; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    B/E—50 to 83 centimeters (19.7 to 32.7 inches); 35 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 35 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) gravelly loamy coarse sand, coarse sand, coarse sand; weak medium subangular blocky, and single grain; friable; 2.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 3 percent medium faint noncoherent cemented reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron at top of horizon; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N00709, 11N00708; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    EandBt—83 to 190 centimeters (32.7 to 74.8 inches); 90 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/4) and 10 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) sand, loamy sand; single grain, and fine subangular blocky; loose; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N00710; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—190 to 200 centimeters (74.8 to 78.7 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) sand; single grain; loose; 4 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very slight effervescence. Lab sample # 11N00711; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket