IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marlette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: dense subsoil
  • User Site ID: S2008MI087002
  • User Pedon ID: S2008MI087002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0070
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20235
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 43.1868167
  • Std. Longitude: -83.4597917
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 19
  • Map Unit: MfB—Marlette sandy loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI087—Lapeer
  • MLRA: 111B—Indiana and Ohio Till Plain, Northeastern Part
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FIN—Findlay, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI087—Lapeer County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43083-B4—Columbiaville, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dan Wing
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Aquic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marlette
  • PSC - 15 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/11/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Marlette
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Aquic Glossudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 15 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/11/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till over dense till
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/11/2008 (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

    41 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    glossic horizon

    densic materials

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—15

    15—41

    41—

    41—

    —15—

    —26—

    —-

    —-
    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

    8

    —

    —

    257

    —

    784

    —

    144

    8.3

    20.1

    -4.3

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    204655

    Lapeer WWTP

    COOP
    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-4-20 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N00414; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    B/E—15 to 41 centimeters (5.9 to 16.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), dry; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak thin platy structure; firm; moderate permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 4 percent fine faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions and 20 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) iron-manganese masses; 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-4-20 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Cd—41 to 76 centimeters (16.1 to 29.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), dry; loam; strong very thick platy parts to strong medium platy structure; slightly rigid; impermeable permeability; 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-4-20 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence.; moist when described; observed in pit, small