IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tekenink
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012MI117013
  • User Pedon ID: S2012MI117013
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012MI117013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0265
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55285
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • 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: 43.3773333
  • Std. Longitude: -84.9368333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 5
  • Map Unit: Mt—Montcalm loamy sand and sandy loam, 6 to 10 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-C3—Trufant, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Marc Zucco
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Arenic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tekenink
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Arenic Glossudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 81 to 131 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/30/2012
  • Classifier - MZ
  • 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: coarse-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent nonflat subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter mixed, 0.01 percent flat subrounded 251- to 600-millimeter mixed, 5.00 percent nonflat subrounded 76- to 250-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/25/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Marc Zucco
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • 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

    TRITI

    Triticum

    wheat

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

    ochric epipedon

    glossic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—27

    81—220

    81—220

    —27—

    —139—

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    Pedon Horizon Bulk Density
    Horizon Depth to Top Depth to Bottom Method Data Collector Field Moist Volume Field Moist Sample Wt. Air Dry Sample Wt. Field Moist Co. Fragment Wt. Air Dry Fragment Wt. Fragment Density Coarse Fragment Volume Air Dry Subsample Wt. Oven Dry Subsample Wt. Grav Soil Moist % Whole Soil Grav Soil Moist % Fine Earth Bulk Density FM Fine Soil Bulk Density FM Whole Soill Bulk Density OD fINE Earth Bulk Density OD Fine Earth Bulk Density Satiated
    cm cm3 g g/cm3 cm3 g % g/cm3

    Ap

    Bw

    E

    B/E

    0

    27

    43

    81

    27

    43

    81

    220

    core, constant volume

    core, constant volume

    core, constant volume

    core, constant volume

    Marc Zucco

    Marc Zucco

    Marc Zucco

    Marc Zucco

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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

    6

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    Ap—0 to 27 centimeters (0.0 to 10.6 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; few very fine roots and few fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N00602; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—27 to 43 centimeters (10.6 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) gravelly loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; rapid permeability; few very fine roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 250-?-600 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N00603; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—43 to 81 centimeters (16.9 to 31.9 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; few very fine roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 250-?-600 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method and 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N00604; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    B/E—81 to 220 centimeters (31.9 to 86.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) fine sandy loam, loamy sand, sand; 10 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately rapid permeability; common (4.0) very fine pores; 25 percent prominent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 250-?-600 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 6 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter. Lab sample # 13N00605; moist when described; observed in pit, small