IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Epworth
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: F2009MI139004
  • User Pedon ID: S09MI139004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: F2009MI139004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0110
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24946
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 43.0561943
  • Std. Longitude: -86.2353897
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 16W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4 of SW1/4 of NW1/4 of NE1/4
  • Location Description: 2642 feet West and 976 feet South of NE corner of section 29
  • Map Unit: RsF—Rubicon sand, 18 to 45 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: 43086-A2—Grand Haven, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Tardy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, siliceous, mesic Entic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Epworth
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, siliceous, mesic Entic Haplorthods
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian sands
  • Landform: lake plain
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    ACSA3

    FAGR

    QURU

    TSCA

    VIOLA

    VITIS

    Acer saccharum

    Fagus grandifolia

    Quercus rubra

    Tsuga canadensis

    Viola

    Vitis

    sugar maple

    American beech

    northern red oak

    eastern hemlock

    violet

    grape

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

    ochric epipedon

    spodic horizon

    2—20

    20—30

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

    9/1/2009

    9/1/2009

    51

    100

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    16

    16
    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

    11

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    194

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    290

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    Oa—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); highly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N00420; observed in pit, small
    Ap—2 to 7 centimeters (0.8 to 2.8 inches); very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) fine sand; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; 30.0 very fine roots throughout and 15.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N00414; observed in pit, small
    Ep—7 to 20 centimeters (2.8 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) fine sand; weak fine granular parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 12.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N00415; observed in pit, small
    Bs1—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 15.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume weakly coherent cemented ortstein fragments fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N00416; observed in pit, small. Tongue of ortstien: 2.5YR 3/6 & 7.5YR 4/6
    Bs2—30 to 50 centimeters (11.8 to 19.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume weakly coherent cemented ortstein fragments fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N00417; observed in pit, small
    BC—50 to 55 centimeters (19.7 to 21.7 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N00418; observed in pit, small
    C—55 to 210 centimeters (21.7 to 82.7 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine sand; single grain; loose; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 10N00419; observed in auger, bucket