IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Benona
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: F2009MI139001
  • User Pedon ID: S09MI139001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: F2009MI139001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0107
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24943
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 42.8756104
  • Std. Longitude: -86.1836929
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 16W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4 of SE1/4
  • Map Unit: BoB—Blown-out land, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI139—Ottawa
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI139—Ottawa County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42086-H2—Port Sheldon, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Matt Bromley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Lamellic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Benona
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, mixed, mesic Lamellic Haplorthods
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/25/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • 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: rise
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/25/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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

    FAGR

    QURU

    Acer rubrum

    Fagus grandifolia

    Quercus rubra

    red maple

    American beech

    northern red oak

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

    endosaturation

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

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    0—9

    6—16

    16—33

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

    8/25/2009

    8/25/2009

    51

    100

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    16

    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

    0

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    189

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    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face sand; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 10N00391; observed in pit, small
    E—9 to 16 centimeters (3.5 to 6.3 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face sand; weak fine subangular blocky parts to single grain; very friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 10N00392; observed in pit, small
    Bs1—16 to 33 centimeters (6.3 to 13.0 inches); 70 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face and 30 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 10N00393; observed in pit, small
    Bs2—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 very coarse roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N00394; observed in pit, small
    Bs3—53 to 102 centimeters (20.9 to 40.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face sand; weak medium subangular blocky parts to single grain; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N00395; observed in pit, small
    E'—102 to 125 centimeters (40.2 to 49.2 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) broken face sand; weak medium subangular blocky parts to single grain; very friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N00396; observed in pit, small
    EandBt—125 to 158 centimeters (49.2 to 62.2 inches); 90 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4) broken face and 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face sand; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 2 percent medium faint spherical noncoherent cemented reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries throughout and 2 percent medium distinct spherical noncoherent cemented pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments; 12 percent lamellae (volume percent); clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N00397; observed in pit, small. Lamellae total 4cm. Bands 0.2 to 0.4cm thick.
    C—158 to 203 centimeters (62.2 to 79.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) sand; single grain; loose; 5 percent medium distinct spherical noncoherent cemented reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 10N00398; observed in pit, small. Redox:at 197cm 2% 5YR 4/6,m fine, none cemented, sharp, spherical and 15% M+C 7.5YR 5/8,NC,S