IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Capac
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976MI073007
  • User Pedon ID: S1976MI073007
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 99 - Capac soils on the Erie-Huron Lake Plain
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - S76MI-73-7
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 80325
  • User Project ID: 23607
  • Project Name: Isabella County, Michigan - Update needed
  • 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: 43.6990778
  • Std. Longitude: -84.7945528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15 North
  • Range: 4 West
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 150 feet north and 1800 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: Isabella Township
  • Map Unit: 23B—Ithaca loam, 0 to 4 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-F7—Rosebush, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Wesley K. Mettert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Capac
  • PSC - 20 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/13/2016
  • Classifier - Matthew C. Bromley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Londo
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Aeric Glossaqualfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/10/1976
  • Classifier - Wesley K. Mettert
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Current Crop - wheat
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: wave-worked till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/10/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Wesley K. Mettert
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown 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

    aquic conditions

    0—20

    20—33

    20—53

    20—152

    —20—

    —13—

    —33—

    —132—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    243.1

    —

    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 grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; many (10.0) fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary.
    B/E—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay films; 10 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary.
    B/E—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loam; fragments.
    Bt—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; many fine and medium high-continuity tubular pores; 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay films; 10 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine distinct gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions; 1 percent by volume 2-11-20 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 77P0787. continuous - phpvsfiid 1633691; continuous - phpvsfiid 1633691
    C1—53 to 64 centimeters (20.9 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; weak medium and coarse angular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions; 1 percent by volume 2-11-20 millimeter mixed fragments; few fine light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) geogenic masses of calcium carbonate; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 77P0788
    C2—64 to 152 centimeters (25.2 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) clay loam; massive; friable; 10 percent medium faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions; 1 percent by volume 2-11-20 millimeter mixed fragments; many fine light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) geogenic masses of calcium carbonate; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter. Lab sample # 77P0789