IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Glendora
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: F2009MI121003
  • User Pedon ID: S09MI121003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: F2009MI121003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0099
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24935
  • Print Date: 2/2/2025

    • 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: 43.2076950
  • Std. Longitude: -86.1073074
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 15W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 144 feet West and 814 feet North of SE corner, NE1/4 of SE1/4 of SE1/4
  • Map Unit: So—Sloan soils
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI121—Muskegon
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI121—Muskegon County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43086-B1—Sullivan, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Tardy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Mollic Psammaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Glendora
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, mesic Mollic Psammaquents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/2009
  • 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 lacustrine deposits
  • Landform: lake plain
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: dip
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for long periods
  • Ponding: occasional ponding for brief periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/27/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - 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

    MACA4

    MIRE

    POPE

    TIAM

    ULAM

    Acer rubrum

    Fraxinus pennsylvanica

    Galium

    Maianthemum canadense

    Mitchella repens

    Podophyllum peltatum

    Tilia americana

    Ulmus americana

    red maple

    green ash

    bedstraw

    Canada mayflower

    partridgeberry

    mayapple

    American basswood

    American elm

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

    endosaturation

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    ochric epipedon

    redox concentrations

    aquic conditions

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    —140

    0—17

    17—87

    55—

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    8/27/2009

    51

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    15
    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

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    192

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    210

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    A—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face mucky sand; moderate medium granular, and moderate coarse granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 45.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 very coarse roots throughout and 6.0 medium roots throughout and 20.0 fine roots throughout and 4.0 coarse roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N00354; observed in pit, small
    Bg—17 to 30 centimeters (6.7 to 11.8 inches); 65 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face and 35 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face sand; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to single grain; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 25.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 very coarse roots throughout and 10.0 medium roots throughout and 15.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; 2 percent prominent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 7 percent medium spherical noncoherent cemented dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 8 percent medium faint spherical noncoherent cemented dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout and 12 percent coarse spherical noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N00355; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 472738; patchy - phpvsfiid 472738
    C1—30 to 87 centimeters (11.8 to 34.3 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 4 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 7 percent medium spherical noncoherent cemented dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 8 percent very coarse faint spherical noncoherent cemented dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout and 12 percent coarse spherical noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 10N00356; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 472739; patchy - phpvsfiid 472739
    C2—87 to 140 centimeters (34.3 to 55.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 25 percent very coarse faint spherical noncoherent cemented gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat noncoherent cemented 5-35-75 millimeter wood fragments. Lab sample # 10N00357; observed in auger, bucket. at 109cm thin Strata of mucky peat (1 to 5cm thick); patchy - phpvsfiid 472740; patchy - phpvsfiid 472740