IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Spinks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013MI127001
  • User Pedon ID: S2013MI127001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2013MI127001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N97288
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74400
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 43.6712222
  • Std. Longitude: -86.3866944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: Approximately 1,218 feet south and 2,423 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Hart Township. Site is in an apple orchard on a grassed alley between rows of trees.
  • Map Unit: 45C—Spinks-Benona complex, 6 to 12 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI127—Oceana
  • 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: MI127—Oceana County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43086-F4—Mears, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jon Quisler, Matt Bromley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Lamellic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Spinks
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/17/2014
  • Classifier - Jon Quisler
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh 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 - 5/7/2013
  • Classifier - Jon Quisler
  • 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:
  • Agronomic Feature - tree or vine row with cover
  • Current Crop - apples
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy drift
  • Landscape: ice-margin complex
  • Landform: moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Pattern: deranged
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/7/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Jon Quisler, Matt Bromley
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - crop trees
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 24
  • Water Properties:
  • Water pH Method - unspecified
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    MALUS

    Malus

    apple

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

    ochric epipedon

    lamellae

    argillic horizon

    0—26

    35—200

    35—200

    —26—

    —165—

    —165—
    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

    10

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    253

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    273

    917

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    7.9

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    Oe—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Ap—2 to 26 centimeters (0.8 to 10.2 inches); 90 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; sand; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; very friable; few (0.5) very fine roots and few (0.5) medium roots and few (0.5) fine roots and few (0.5) coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N12353; observed in pit, small
    Bw—26 to 35 centimeters (10.2 to 13.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sand; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; few (0.5) very fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 7.1, pH meter; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 13N12354; observed in pit, small
    E and Bt1—35 to 120 centimeters (13.8 to 47.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; sand, loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; few (0.5) very fine roots top of horizon; 15 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay bridges between sand grains; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 76-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 4 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 7.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N12355; observed in pit, small
    E and Bt2—120 to 200 centimeters (47.2 to 78.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; fine sand, loamy fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 15 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay bridges between sand grains; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 76-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 7.2, pH meter. Lab sample # 13N12356; observed in pit, small