IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Plainfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011MI117001
  • User Pedon ID: S2011MI117001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2011MI117001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7766
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55241
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 43.3962222
  • Std. Longitude: -85.5209722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 10W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 of SW 1/4
  • Location Description: Reynolds Township
  • 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-D5—Tift Corner, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Marc Zucco
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Typic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Plainfield
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/18/2012
  • Classifier - Matt Bromley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Plainfield
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, mesic Typic Udipsamments
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/26/2011
  • Classifier - Marc Zucco
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/26/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Marc Zucco
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    EUAL8

    GAPR2

    PIST

    PTERI

    QUAL

    VAAN

    VIAC

    VIDE

    Acer rubrum

    Euonymus alata

    Gaultheria procumbens

    Pinus strobus

    Pteridium

    Quercus alba

    Vaccinium angustifolium

    Viburnum acerifolium

    Viburnum dentatum

    red maple

    winged burning bush

    eastern teaberry

    eastern white pine

    brackenfern

    white oak

    lowbush blueberry

    mapleleaf viburnum

    southern arrowwood

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—15

    —15—
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    10/26/2011

    10/26/2011

    50

    100

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    10

    10
    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

    1

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    267

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    903

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    7.7

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) sand; 3 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; many very fine roots and common medium roots and many fine roots and few coarse roots; 0 percent by volume , 0 percent by weight 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N01700; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—15 to 26 centimeters (5.9 to 10.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) sand; 2 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; common very fine roots and common medium roots and common fine roots; 1 percent by volume , 1 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N01701; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—26 to 58 centimeters (10.2 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sand; 2 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; common very fine roots and common medium roots and common fine roots; 3 percent by volume , 5 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N01702; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—58 to 77 centimeters (22.8 to 30.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) sand; 1 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; few very fine roots and few fine roots; 2 percent by volume , 4 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N01703; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—77 to 210 centimeters (30.3 to 82.7 inches); yellow (10YR 7/6) sand; single grain; loose; rapid permeability; few fine roots; 1 percent by volume , 3 percent by weight nonflat subrounded 2-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter. Lab sample # 12N01704; moist when described; observed in pit, small