IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Klacking
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MI085002
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MI085002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1978MI085002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MTU
  • Lab Pedon # - S78MI-85-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71241
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 43.9962389
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8809972
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 13W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 2420 feet S and 425 feet E of the NW corner
  • Map Unit: 20C—Montcalm-Graycalm complex, 6 to 12 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI085—Lake
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI600—Lake and Wexford Counties, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43085-H8—Townsend Lake, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Trettin, D. Buchanan, E. Tompkins, R. Watson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, active, mesic Arenic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Klacking
  • PSC - 97 to 147 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/17/2013
  • Classifier - M. Bromley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Montcalm
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Eutric Glossoboralfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1978
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy till
  • Landscape: outwash plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Pattern: deranged
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/17/2013 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: M. Bromley
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    ACRU

    QURU

    Acer rubrum

    Quercus rubra

    red maple

    northern red oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    glossic horizon

    lamellae

    0—3

    97—155

    97—155

    155—170

    —3—

    —58—

    —58—

    —15—
    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

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    300.4

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    135

    847

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    146

    8.1

    19.4

    -3.7

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    205065

    Manistee 3SE

    COOP
    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; sand; weak fine angular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; many roots; 4 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MTU78112
    Bs1—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; many roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MTU78113
    Bs2—15 to 53 centimeters (5.9 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; many roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MTU78114
    Bs3—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; common roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MTU78115
    Bw—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MTU78116
    B/E—97 to 155 centimeters (38.2 to 61.0 inches); variegated 70 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 30 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4) sandy loam, loamy sand; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately rapid permeability; common roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MTU78117, MTU78120, MTU78121
    E and Bt—155 to 170 centimeters (61.0 to 66.9 inches); 60 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4) and 40 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) sand, loamy sand, sandy loam; structureless massive; very friable; rapid permeability; few roots; fragments; 40 percent lamellae (volume percent); moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified. Lab sample # MTU78118, MTU78119