IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shiawassee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987MI145003
  • User Pedon ID: S1987MI145003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0300
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60421
  • User Project ID: 22661
  • Project Name: Saginaw County, Michigan - Update
  • 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: 43.1321944
  • Std. Longitude: -84.0207556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9 North
  • Range: 4 East
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 50 feet north and 1800 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: Maple Grove Township
  • Map Unit: 41A—Shiawassee gravelly sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI145—Saginaw
  • MLRA: 99—Erie-Huron Lake Plain
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FLI—Flint, Michigan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI145—Saginaw County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43084-B1—Chesaning East, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gay Lynn Kinter, George E. Teachman, Mary M. West
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Aquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shiawassee (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 28 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/2012
  • Classifier - William E. Frederick
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Metamora
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Aquic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 28 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1987
  • Classifier - Gay Lynn Kinter
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - third edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy glaciolacustrine deposits over loamy till
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: wave-worked till plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Gay Lynn Kinter
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    86 - 152

    - 66 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    densic contact

    densic materials

    0—28

    28—69

    69—152

    86—

    86—152

    —28—

    —41—

    —83—

    —-

    —66—
    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

    2

    —

    —

    215

    —

    180

    784

    —

    154

    8.3

    20.4

    -4.4

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    206300

    Owosso WWTP

    COOP
    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, dry; gravelly sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Bt—28 to 69 centimeters (11.0 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films on bottom faces of peds; 1 percent medium irregular iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium prominent light gray (10YR 7/2) iron depletions and 20 percent coarse distinct brown (10YR 5/3) iron depletions; 5 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P01575; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1422173; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1422173
    2BC—69 to 86 centimeters (27.2 to 33.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent fine prominent greenish gray (5G 6/1) iron depletions and 10 percent medium prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P01576; moist when described;
    2Cd—86 to 152 centimeters (33.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; strong medium platy structure; very firm; 1 percent fine prominent greenish gray (5G 6/1) iron depletions; 10 percent coarse irregular carbonate masses; 5 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter. Lab sample # 88P01576; moist when described;