IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Spinks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013MI149001
  • User Pedon ID: S2013MI149001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N97289
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74401
  • 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: 42.0328611
  • Std. Longitude: -85.5865833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5S
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4 of SW1/4
  • Map Unit: 5B—Spinks loamy sand, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI149—St. Joseph
  • 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: MI149—St. Joseph County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42085-A5—Vicksburg, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Marc Zucco, 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 - 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 - 4/30/2013
  • 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
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy outwash
  • Landscape: outwash plain
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/22/2013 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    lamellae

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    70—203

    70—203

    —20—

    —133—

    —133—
    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

    3

    —

    —

    285

    —

    285

    947

    —

    —

    9.5

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    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few (0.5) very fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N12357; observed in pit, small
    E—20 to 70 centimeters (7.9 to 27.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1 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 # 13N12358; observed in pit, small
    E and Bt—70 to 200 centimeters (27.6 to 78.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) sand, loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; 27 percent lamellae (lateral area percent); noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter. Lab sample # 13N12359, 13N12360, 13N12361; observed in pit, small