IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Perrinton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: Saginaw Lobe
  • User Site ID: S1976MI073005
  • User Pedon ID: S1976MI073005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - S76MI-73-5
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 80323
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 43.5699056
  • Std. Longitude: -84.7479194
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 710 feet N and 150 feet W of the SE corner
  • Location Description: Union Township
  • Map Unit: 60B—Guelph loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI073—Isabella
  • MLRA: 99—Erie-Huron Lake Plain
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-GRP—Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI073—Isabella County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43084-E6—Shepherd, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ken Mettert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Perrinton
  • PSC - 20 to 51 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/10/2015
  • Classifier - Matt Bromley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Perrinton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Glossoboric Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 51 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/10/1976
  • Classifier - Ken Mettert
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Current Crop - beans, other dry
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: wave-worked till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Pattern: artificial
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/10/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Ken Mettert, Ryland
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    glossic horizon

    argillic horizon

    free carbonates

    0—20

    20—28

    20—51

    61—152

    —20—

    —8—

    —31—

    —61—
    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

    3

    —

    —

    243.9

    —

    809

    —

    161

    8

    20.3

    -4.8

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Central Michigan University

    COOP
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary.
    B/E (E)—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; fragments; - 20 - percent of the total horizon; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary.
    B/E (Bt)—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; many very fine high-continuity tubular and many medium high-continuity tubular and many fine high-continuity tubular pores; 70 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; - 80 - percent of the total horizon; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary.
    Bt—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; many very fine high-continuity tubular and many medium high-continuity tubular and many fine high-continuity tubular pores; 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 77P0781
    C1—51 to 61 centimeters (20.1 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; common very fine high-continuity interstitial and common fine high-continuity interstitial pores; 15 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 77P0782. patchy - phpvsfiid 1398178; patchy - phpvsfiid 1398178
    C2—61 to 114 centimeters (24.0 to 44.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; weak medium angular blocky, and weak coarse angular blocky structure; friable; few fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 15 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent fine light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 77P0783. patchy - phpvsfiid 1398179; patchy - phpvsfiid 1398179
    C3—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; structureless massive; friable; few very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 25 percent coarse gray (10YR 6/1), moist, carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n.