IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Spinks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013MI081002
  • User Pedon ID: S2013MI081002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2013MI081002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N97286
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74398
  • Print Date: 1/27/2025

    • 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: 43.1455556
  • Std. Longitude: -85.6097778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 27
  • Location Description: Algoma Township
  • Map Unit: 30B—Spinks loamy sand, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI081—Kent
  • 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: MI081—Kent County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43085-B5—Cedar Springs, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Marc Zucco, Matt Bromley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Psammentic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Spinks
  • PSC - 80 to 203 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/17/2014
  • Classifier - Jon Quisler
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Spinks
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, mixed, mesic Lamellic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/13/2013
  • 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
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Current Crop - corn
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy outwash
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: outwash terrace on glacial drainage channel
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Marc Zucco, Matt Bromley
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row 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

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lamellae

    argillic horizon

    0—35

    80—105

    105—203

    105—203

    —35—

    —25—

    —98—

    —98—
    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

    2

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    223

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    330

    919

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    8.4

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    Ap—0 to 35 centimeters (0.0 to 13.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; few (0.5) very fine roots and few (0.5) fine roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N12342; observed in pit, small
    Bw—35 to 49 centimeters (13.8 to 19.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; few (0.5) very fine roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N12343; observed in pit, small
    E—49 to 80 centimeters (19.3 to 31.5 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N12344; observed in pit, small
    Bt—80 to 105 centimeters (31.5 to 41.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) coarse sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N12345; observed in pit, small
    E and Bt—105 to 203 centimeters (41.3 to 79.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) sand, loamy sand; 5 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter. Lab sample # 13N12346; observed in auger, bucket