IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lenawee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981MI157002
  • User Pedon ID: S1981MI157002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1981MI157002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0785
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50179
  • 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: 43.5196806
  • Std. Longitude: -83.6607139
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 650 feet east and 280 feet north of the southwest corner
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI157—Tuscola
  • MLRA: 99—Erie-Huron Lake Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI157—Tuscola County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43083-E6—Quanicassee, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W.K. Mettert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Calciaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lenawee
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/5/2010
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tappan
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed (calcareous), mesic Typic Haplaq
  • Taxon Kind - variant
  • Classificaton Date - 7/6/1981
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clay and silt loam lacustrine deposits over loam till
  • Landform: depression on lake plain
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/6/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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    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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    812

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    125

    8.4

    20.4

    -4.4

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    201299

    Caro WWTP

    COOP
    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; loam; 14 percent sand; 51 percent silt; 35 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; 21 percent fine white (10YR 8/1) shell fragments; fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P04679
    C1—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); gray (10YR 6/1), light gray (10YR 7/1), dry; silt loam; 10 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 40 percent clay; massive; firm; 30 percent fine dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix and 30 percent medium dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses lining pores and 30 percent fine dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses lining pores and 30 percent medium dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; 21 percent fine white (10YR 8/1) shell fragments; fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P04680
    C2—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silt loam; 13 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 44 percent clay; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) coarse prominent mottles; massive; firm; 1 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) worm casts and 1 percent fine white (10YR 8/1) shell fragments; fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P04681
    C3—51 to 61 centimeters (20.1 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 7 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 47 percent clay; 3 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; massive; firm; fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P04682
    C4—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; massive; firm; fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; abrupt wavy boundary.
    C5—84 to 156 centimeters (33.1 to 61.4 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam, clay loam; 39 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 23 percent clay; 21 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine faint mottles; massive; firm; 2 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6. Lab sample # 81P04683