IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brevort
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016MI011001
  • User Pedon ID: S2016MI011001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2016MI011001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0391
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 87421
  • User Project ID: FLI - LAB
  • Project Name: MLRA 94A - Flint - Lab Characterization FY2015 NRI Cropland Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP)
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 44.0489583
  • Std. Longitude: -83.7466611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 0.48
  • GPS - PDOP: 1
  • Township: 19 North
  • Range: 6 East
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 2393 feet south and 267 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Au Gres Township
  • Map Unit: Ps—Pinconning loamy sand
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI011—Arenac
  • MLRA: 94C—Northern Michigan Limestone Lake Plains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FLI—Flint, Michigan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI011—Arenac County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44083-A6—Au Gres, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joseph K. Calus, Eric S. Gano
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy over loamy, mixed, subactive, nonacid, frigid Mollic Epiaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brevort
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/8/2018
  • Classifier - Eric S. Gano
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pinconning
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy over clayey, mixed, semiactive, nonacid, frigid Mollic Epiaquents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/12/2016
  • Classifier - Eric S. Gano
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy glaciolacustrine deposits over loamy and clayey glaciolacustrine deposits over loamy till
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: till-floored lake plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/12/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Eric S. Gano
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    ASSY

    CAVU2

    GABO2

    SCTA2

    SOCA6

    SOGI

    Asclepias syriaca

    Carex vulpinoidea

    Galium boreale

    Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani

    Solidago canadensis

    Solidago gigantea

    common milkweed

    fox sedge

    northern bedstraw

    softstem bulrush

    Canada goldenrod

    giant goldenrod

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

    ochric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—23

    23—203

    66—145

    145—203

    —23—

    —180—

    —77—

    —58—
    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

    0

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    179.6

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    769

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    134

    6.9

    18.9

    -5.6

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    207820

    Standish 4NE

    COOP
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); 60 percent black (10YR 2/1) and 40 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), 60 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; sand; weak coarse granular parts to weak fine granular structure; very friable; common (3.0) medium roots throughout and many (10.0) fine roots throughout and few (0.5) coarse roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02095; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cg1—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) sand; single grain; loose; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 40 percent prominent black (10YR 2/1) organic stains on surfaces along root channels; 5 percent medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02096; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cg2—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) sand; single grain; loose; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron on surfaces along root channels and 35 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02097; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Cg3—66 to 78 centimeters (26.0 to 30.7 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) loam; massive; friable; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron on surfaces along root channels and 30 percent coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02098; wet, non-satiated when described; observed in pit, small
    2Cg4—78 to 145 centimeters (30.7 to 57.1 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; massive; firm; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 10 percent coarse prominent masses of oxidized iron on surfaces along root channels and 30 percent coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02099; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    3Cg5—145 to 203 centimeters (57.1 to 79.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; massive; firm; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 5 percent fine distinct gray (10YR 5/1) iron depletions throughout and 5 percent medium prominent masses of oxidized iron on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent by volume , 2 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 20-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weight and displacement method and 1 percent by volume , 2 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weight and displacement method and 1 percent by volume , 2 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weight and displacement method; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter. Lab sample # 17N02100; moist when described; observed in pit, small