IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shavenaugh
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010MI117006
  • User Pedon ID: S2010MI117006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: F2010MI117006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0158
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43434
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 43.1374167
  • Std. Longitude: -85.2592500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4 of SE1/4
  • Map Unit: PlfaeB—Plainfield-Spinks sands, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI117—Montcalm
  • 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: MI117—Montcalm County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43085-B3—Greenville West, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Marc Zucco
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Psammentic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shavenaugh
  • PSC - 42 to 92 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/24/2017
  • Classifier - Matt Bromley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Spinks - grv sub
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, mixed, mesic Lamellic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/2/2010
  • Classifier - Marc Zucco
  • 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 and gravelly glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: outwash terrace on glacial drainage channel
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    E and Bt

    77

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    98.6

    sieves

    31.9

    29.6

    30.7

    5.6

    0.8

    270 mesh sieve

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    E and Bt

    77

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    E and Bt

    77

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CAREX

    GABO2

    HAMAM

    LONIC

    PAQU2

    PIGL

    PRSE2

    QUAL

    QURU

    RUID

    SAAL5

    VAAN

    VIAC

    Carex

    Galium boreale

    Hamamelis

    Lonicera

    Parthenocissus quinquefolia

    Picea glauca

    Prunus serotina

    Quercus alba

    Quercus rubra

    Rubus idaeus

    Sassafras albidum

    Vaccinium angustifolium

    Viburnum acerifolium

    sedge

    northern bedstraw

    witchhazel

    honeysuckle

    Virginia creeper

    white spruce

    black cherry

    white oak

    northern red oak

    American red raspberry

    sassafras

    lowbush blueberry

    mapleleaf viburnum

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lamellae

    0—18

    42—150

    77—150

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    —108—

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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

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) loamy sand; 13 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 11N00738; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs—18 to 42 centimeters (7.1 to 16.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) loamy coarse sand; 13 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N00739; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—42 to 77 centimeters (16.5 to 30.3 inches); 35 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 35 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) gravelly loamy coarse sand; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to massive; very friable; very rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3 percent medium faint noncoherent cemented reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron at top of horizon; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N00740; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E and Bt—77 to 150 centimeters (30.3 to 59.1 inches); 90 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 10 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) very gravelly coarse sand; 99 percent sand; 1 percent silt; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose; very rapid permeability; 2.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 76-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 43 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N00741; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—150 to 178 centimeters (59.1 to 70.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) sand; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose; rapid permeability; 4 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, unspecified. Lab sample # 11N00742; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket