IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Spinks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2011MI117005
  • User Pedon ID: 2011MI117005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2011MI117005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7767
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55242
  • 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: 43.2579167
  • Std. Longitude: -85.0554000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4 of NE 1/4
  • Location Description: Evergreen Township
  • Map Unit: PlfaeB—Plainfield-Spinks sands, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI117—Montcalm
  • 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: MI117—Montcalm County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43085-C1—Stanton, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Marc Zucco
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Lamellic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Spinks
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/2012
  • Classifier - Matt Bromley
  • 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
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/2011
  • 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 glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: outwash terrace on glacial drainage channel
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Matt Bromley
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    ELUM

    HAMAM

    PIST

    POGR4

    PRSE2

    QURU

    SAAL5

    Acer rubrum

    Elaeagnus umbellata

    Hamamelis

    Pinus strobus

    Populus grandidentata

    Prunus serotina

    Quercus rubra

    Sassafras albidum

    red maple

    autumn olive

    witchhazel

    eastern white pine

    bigtooth aspen

    black cherry

    northern red oak

    sassafras

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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—9

    98—200

    98—200

    —9—

    —102—

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    11/1/2011

    11/1/2011

    50

    100

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    10

    8
    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

    4

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    259

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    858

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    8.4

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    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loamy sand; 4 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; very friable; rapid permeability; common very fine roots and common medium roots and common fine roots; 1 percent by volume , 1 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—9 to 24 centimeters (3.5 to 9.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) loamy sand; 3 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; common very fine roots and common medium roots and common fine roots; 1 percent by volume , 1 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—24 to 68 centimeters (9.4 to 26.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sand; 2 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; common very fine roots and common medium roots and common fine roots and few coarse roots; 1 percent by volume , 2 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—68 to 98 centimeters (26.8 to 38.6 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) sand; 2 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; few very fine roots and few medium roots and few fine roots; 1 percent by volume , 2 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E and Bt—98 to 200 centimeters (38.6 to 78.7 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) sand, loamy sand, sandy loam; 7 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; rapid permeability; few fine roots; clay bridges between sand grains; 3 percent masses of oxidized iron; 0 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in pit, small