IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Parkhill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985MI057001
  • User Pedon ID: S1985MI057001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0675
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56941
  • Print Date: 1/29/2025

    • 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: 43.1286125
  • Std. Longitude: -84.4252777
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9 North
  • Range: 1 West
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 2075 feet south and 540 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Elba Township
  • Map Unit: Ph—Parkhill loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI057—Gratiot
  • MLRA: 99—Erie-Huron Lake Plain
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FLI—Flint, Michigan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI057—Gratiot County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43084-B4—Ashley, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Loren Berndt, Neil Stroesenreuther
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, nonacid, mesic Mollic Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Parkhill
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/22/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ziegenfuss
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, nonacid, mesic Mollic Haplaquept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: wave-worked till plain
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Neil Stroesenreuther
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    0—23

    23—92

    23—160

    —23—

    —69—

    —137—
    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

    —

    —

    205

    —

    0

    834

    —

    155

    8.7

    20.8

    -4.1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    207280

    Saint Johns

    COOP
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P03482
    Bg1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, iron stains; 25 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03483
    Bg2—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 25 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03484
    Bg3—61 to 92 centimeters (24.0 to 36.2 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 25 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03485
    Cg1—92 to 112 centimeters (36.2 to 44.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior clay loam; massive; very firm; 25 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03486
    Cg2—112 to 160 centimeters (44.1 to 63.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) interior clay loam; massive; very firm; white (N 8/0), moist, carbonate coats; 25 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P03487