IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Onekama
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: Saginaw Lobe
  • User Site ID: S1970MI035001
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MI035001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1970MI035001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1895
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36053
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024
  • 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: 43.8950005
  • Std. Longitude: -84.6760254
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 4
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI035—Clare
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI035—Clare County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43084-H6—Browns Corners, Michigan
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H.R. Sinclair, Jr. and H. Webber
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Glossic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Onekama
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/23/2015
  • Classifier - M. Bromley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nester
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed Typic Eutroboralfs
  • PSC - 35 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/10/1970
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landform: dead ice moraine
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/10/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - 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

    DACA6

    POA

    Daucus carota

    Poa

    Queen Anne's lace

    bluegrass

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

    ochric epipedon

    interfingering of albic materials

    argillic horizon

    free carbonates

    0—25

    25—58

    25—75

    58—152

    —25—

    —33—

    —50—

    —94—

    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

    5

    796

    132

    7.4

    19.7

    -5.5

    203170

    Gladwin

    COOP

    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 roots; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A15092
    B/E (E)—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), white (10YR 8/1), dry; loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; brown (7.5YR 4/2) clay films; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; - 25 - percent of the total horizon; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A15093. continuous - phpvsfiid 1398253; continuous - phpvsfiid 1398253
    B/E (Bt)—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; brown (7.5YR 4/2) clay films; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; - 75 - percent of the total horizon; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A15093. continuous - phpvsfiid 1398194; continuous - phpvsfiid 1398194
    Bt1—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and pale brown (10YR 6/3), white (10YR 8/1), dry; clay loam, loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate very fine and fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 roots; dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) clay films on faces of peds and black (5YR 2/1) clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A15094
    Bt2—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 roots; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A15095
    BC—74 to 97 centimeters (29.1 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to strong medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 roots; dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A15096
    C1—97 to 112 centimeters (38.2 to 44.1 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) and brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to strong medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.1 roots; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A15097. sampling break
    C2—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) clay loam; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.1 roots; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A15098