IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Williamstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008MI049005
  • User Pedon ID: S2008MI049005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0068
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20233
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 42.9578000
  • Std. Longitude: -83.8823222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 33
  • Map Unit: CsrabB—Crosier-Williamstown loams, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI049—Genesee
  • 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: MI049—Genesee County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42083-H8—Durand, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joe Calus, Dan Wing
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Williamstown
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/4/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Williamstown
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Landform: recessional moraine
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/18/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • 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

    very strongly coherent

    119 - 203

    - 84 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—69

    —18—

    —51—
    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

    4

    —

    —

    249

    —

    160

    801

    —

    159

    8.6

    20.4

    -4.1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    202846

    Flint FCWOS

    COOP
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-7-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube
    BE—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); 90 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 10 percent brown (10YR 5/3) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine vesicular pores; 30 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-7-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 400521; patchy - phpvsfiid 400521
    Bt1—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine vesicular pores; 30 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-7-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N00412; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 400522; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 400522
    Bt2—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine vesicular pores; 30 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions throughout and 25 percent medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-7-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 400527; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 400527
    C1—69 to 89 centimeters (27.2 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; massive; firm; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-7-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube
    C2—89 to 119 centimeters (35.0 to 46.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; moderate medium platy structure; firm; 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-7-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; abrupt wavy boundary.; wet when described; observed in push tube
    Cd3—119 to 203 centimeters (46.9 to 79.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) loam; massive; very firm; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-7-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4.; moist when described; observed in push tube