IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Londo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976MI073006
  • User Pedon ID: S1976MI073006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - S76MI-73-6
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 80324
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 43.5823139
  • Std. Longitude: -84.7499722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 650 feet W and 110 feet S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: Union Township
  • Map Unit: 39A—Londo loam, 0 to 3 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-FLI—Flint, Michigan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI073—Isabella County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43084-E6—Shepherd, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mettert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Aeric Glossaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Londo
  • PSC - 25 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/13/2016
  • Classifier - M. Bromley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Londo
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Aeric Glossaqualfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/10/1976
  • Classifier - Ryland, Mettert
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Current Crop - corn
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: wave-worked loamy till
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: wave-worked till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/10/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Ryland, Mettert
  • 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

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    redox concentrations

    reduced matrix

    free carbonates

    reduced matrix

    0—25

    25—33

    25—46

    25—64

    25—46

    33—46

    46—152

    64—152

    —25—

    —8—

    —21—

    —39—

    —21—

    —13—

    —106—

    —88—
    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

    2

    —

    —

    237.6

    —

    809

    —

    161

    8

    20.3

    -4.8

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    205662

    Central Michigan University

    COOP
    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary.
    B/E (Bt)—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); 85 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; many very fine high-continuity tubular and many medium high-continuity tubular and many fine high-continuity tubular pores; 15 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films; 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; - 85 - percent of the total horizon; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary.
    B/E (E)—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); 15 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; many very fine high-continuity tubular and many medium high-continuity tubular and many fine high-continuity tubular pores; 15 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films; 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; - 15 - percent of the total horizon; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary.
    Btg—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; many medium high-continuity tubular and many fine high-continuity tubular pores; 70 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films; 10 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 77P0784
    C1—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; weak medium angular blocky, and weak coarse angular blocky structure; friable; few very fine high-continuity tubular and few fine high-continuity tubular pores; 25 percent fine faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; gray (10YR 6/1), moist, carbonate masses on surfaces along pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 77P0785
    C2—64 to 152 centimeters (25.2 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and brown (10YR 5/3) clay loam; structureless massive; friable; medium dendritic tubular and fine dendritic tubular and coarse dendritic tubular pores; gray (10YR 6/1), moist, carbonate masses on surfaces along pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified. Lab sample # 77P0786