IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Granby
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MI139T02102
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MI139T02102
  • Vegetation Plot ID: F2008MI139T021-2
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - F2008MI139T021
  • Transect Stop Number - 2
  • Transect Interval - 31.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0843
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19923
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 42.9251667
  • Std. Longitude: -85.9996111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 14W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • Map Unit: To—Tonkey sandy loam
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI139—Ottawa
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI139—Ottawa County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42085-H8—Allendale, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Matt Bromley, Steve Tardy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Typic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Granby
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, mixed, mesic Typic Endoaquolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy lacustrine deposits
  • Landform: lake plain
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/7/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    MESA

    Medicago sativa

    alfalfa

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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

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    Ap—0 to 38 centimeters (0.0 to 15.0 inches); black (N 2/0) mucky sand; fragments.; observed in auger, bucket
    C—38 to 70 centimeters (15.0 to 27.6 inches); sand, fine sand; iron-manganese masses; fragments.; observed in auger, bucket