IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Plainfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007MI121006
  • User Pedon ID: S2007MI121006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: F2007MI121006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0560
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19303
  • 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: 43.2636375
  • Std. Longitude: -86.3427505
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4 of NE 1/4
  • Location Description: Laketon Township
  • Map Unit: PlfabB—Plainfield sand, lake plain, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI121—Muskegon
  • 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: MI121—Muskegon County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43086-C3—Dalton, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J Scott Eversoll, Matt Bromley, Steve Tardy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Spodic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Plainfield
  • PSC - 30 to 105 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/13/2015
  • Classifier - M. Bromley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Grattan
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, mixed, mesic Entic Haplorthods
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/24/2007
  • Classifier - Steve Tardy
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy lacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: nearshore zone (relict)
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/24/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Scott Eversoll
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    ACRU

    FAGR

    GALIU

    GALIU

    HAMAM

    PIST

    PTERI

    PYROL

    QUAL

    QURU

    SAAL5

    VAAN

    Acer rubrum

    Fagus grandifolia

    Galium

    Galium

    Hamamelis

    Pinus strobus

    Pteridium

    Pyrola

    Quercus alba

    Quercus rubra

    Sassafras albidum

    Vaccinium angustifolium

    red maple

    American beech

    bedstraw

    bedstraw

    witchhazel

    eastern white pine

    brackenfern

    wintergreen

    white oak

    northern red oak

    sassafras

    lowbush blueberry

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—10

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    5/24/2007

    5/24/2007

    51

    102

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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

    0

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    190

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    295

    848

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    8.4

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; moderately decomposed plant material; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, pH meter 1:2 calcium chloride. Lab sample # 07N03641
    E—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; sand;—Error in Exists On—; very friable; rapid permeability; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N03642
    Bs—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sand; single grain, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky; very friable; rapid permeability; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 0.9 coarse roots; 1 percent by volume , 1 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N03643
    Bhs—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 25 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) sand; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; rapid permeability; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume , 1 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 07N03644
    B's—25 to 71 centimeters (9.8 to 28.0 inches); 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 45 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 5 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) sand; single grain, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky; very friable; rapid permeability; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 1 percent by volume , 1 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 25 percent by volume ortstein fragments fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N03645
    BC—71 to 147 centimeters (28.0 to 57.9 inches); 95 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and 5 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sand; single grain; loose; rapid permeability; 0.9 very fine roots and 0.9 fine roots; 1 percent by volume , 1 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume , 1 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N03646
    C1—147 to 183 centimeters (57.9 to 72.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sand; single grain; loose; rapid permeability; 1 percent by volume , 2 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N03647
    C2—183 to 216 centimeters (72.0 to 85.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sand; single grain; loose; rapid permeability; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter. Lab sample # 07N03648