IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ithaca
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976MI073008
  • User Pedon ID: S1976MI073008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - S76MI-73-8
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 80326
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 43.6985472
  • Std. Longitude: -84.9071000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 380 feet E and 80 feet N of the SW corner
  • Location Description: Nottawa Township
  • Map Unit: 23B—Ithaca loam, 0 to 4 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI073—Isabella
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • 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-F8—Weidman, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mettert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, 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
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ithaca
  • PSC - 25 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/14/2016
  • Classifier - M. Bromley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ithaca
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Glossaquic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/1976
  • Classifier - Mettert
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • 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: 9/2/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: 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

    argillic horizon

    glossic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    free carbonates

    redox concentrations

    0—25

    25—46

    25—33

    33—152

    46—152

    46—152

    —25—

    —21—

    —8—

    —119—

    —106—

    —106—
    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

    —

    —

    272.6

    —

    809

    —

    161

    8

    20.3

    -4.8

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Central Michigan University

    COOP
    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loam; weak medium granular, and weak coarse granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary.
    B/E (Bt)—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); 80 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; many medium high-continuity and many fine high-continuity pores; 15 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films; fragments; - 80 - 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); 20 percent brown (10YR 5/3) loam; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; many medium high-continuity and many fine high-continuity pores; 15 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films; fragments; - 20 - percent of the total horizon; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary.
    Bt—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; many medium high-continuity tubular and many fine high-continuity tubular pores; 15 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films; 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 # 77P0790. continuous - phpvsfiid 1398271; continuous - phpvsfiid 1398271
    C1—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent fine distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; 1 percent fine gray (10YR 6/1), moist, carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 77P0791
    C2—64 to 152 centimeters (25.2 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent fine distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; 25 percent medium light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate masses in cracks; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 77P0792