IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Parkhill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007MI057017
  • User Pedon ID: S2007MI057017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0069
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20234
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 43.3472611
  • Std. Longitude: -84.4072361
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 North
  • Range: 1 West
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 1088 feet south and 667 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Lafayette 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-C4—Rathbone, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dan J. Wing
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, nonacid, mesic Mollic Epiaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Parkhill
  • PSC - 25 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/2017
  • Classifier - Eric S. Gano
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Parkhill
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, nonacid, mesic Mollic Endoaquepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/20/2007
  • Classifier - Dan J. Wing
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: wave-worked till plain
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: frequent ponding for brief periods begining in apr
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/20/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Dan J. Wing
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Local Disturb. Description - in a 2 meter deep drainage ditch
  • Drained? - yes
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    76 - 220

    - 144 -

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

    densic materials

    76—220

    —144—
    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

    0

    —

    —

    212

    —

    824

    —

    154

    8.1

    20.3

    -4.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    200146

    Alma

    COOP
    Cd—76 to 220 centimeters (29.9 to 86.6 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) loam; 20 percent clay; strong thick platy structure; extremely firm; fragments. Lab sample # 09N00413; moist when described; observed in shovel slice