IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Guelph
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979MI073001
  • User Pedon ID: S1979MI073001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - S79MI-73-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 80327
  • 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: 43.5708389
  • Std. Longitude: -84.7867500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 140 feet E and 1,020 feet N of the SW corner
  • Location Description: City of Mt Pleasant
  • Map Unit: 60B—Guelph loam, 2 to 6 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-E7—Mount Pleasant, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert L. McLeese, Erik P. Johnson, George E. Teachman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Glossic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Guelph
  • PSC - 23 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/15/2016
  • Classifier - M. Bromley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Guelph
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Glossoboric Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 23 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/19/1979
  • Classifier - McLeese, Johnson, Teachman
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Current Crop - soybeans
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/19/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: McLeese, Johnson, Teachman
  • 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

    interfingering of albic materials

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    secondary carbonates

    0—23

    23—33

    23—64

    64—152

    64—152

    —23—

    —10—

    —41—

    —88—

    —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

    8

    —

    —

    250.1

    —

    809

    —

    161

    8

    20.3

    -4.8

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Central Michigan University

    COOP
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary.
    B/E (Bt)—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.8, pH indicator solutions; clear irregular boundary.
    B/E (E)—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.8, pH indicator solutions; clear irregular boundary.
    Bt—33 to 64 centimeters (13.0 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 75 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, and dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 7.2, pH indicator solutions; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 80T7239
    C—64 to 152 centimeters (25.2 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; structureless massive; firm; 10 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent fine irregular very pale brown (10YR 8/2), moist, carbonate masses; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 80T7240