IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Plainfield - dune phase
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: F2007MI121005
  • User Pedon ID: F2007MI121005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: F2007MI121005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0559
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19302
  • 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: 43.3390556
  • Std. Longitude: -86.4061667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 18W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4
  • Map Unit: PlfacF—Plainfield sand, dunes, 18 to 60 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI121—Muskegon
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI121—Muskegon County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43086-C4—Michillinda, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J Scott Eversoll, Matt Bromley, Steve Tardy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Typic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Plainfield - dune phase
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/13/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Grattan
  • Classificaton Date - 5/24/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian sands
  • Landform: dune on lake plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/24/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • 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
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACSA3

    DRCA11

    FAGR

    TSUGA

    Acer saccharum

    Dryopteris carthusiana

    Fagus grandifolia

    Tsuga

    sugar maple

    spinulose woodfern

    American beech

    hemlock

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    0—18

    10—18

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

    5/24/2007

    5/24/2007

    102

    51

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    10

    13
    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

    54

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    189

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    140

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    AE—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; sand; weak fine granular, and weak very fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 10.0 coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.
    E—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), brown (7.5YR 5/2), dry; sand; single grain, and weak very fine granular; loose; 10.0 very fine roots and 0.9 very coarse roots and 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 10.0 coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear irregular boundary.
    Bs1—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) sand; single grain; loose; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 0.9 coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear irregular boundary.
    Bs2—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); variegated brown (7.5YR 4/4) sand; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky, and single grain; very friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 0.9 coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; gradual irregular boundary.
    Bs3—58 to 104 centimeters (22.8 to 40.9 inches); variegated brown (7.5YR 4/4) sand; single grain, and weak very coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky; very friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 0.9 coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; gradual irregular boundary.
    Bs4—104 to 140 centimeters (40.9 to 55.1 inches); variegated strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) sand; weak medium subangular blocky parts to single grain, and weak fine subangular blocky parts to single grain; very friable; 0.9 very fine roots and 0.9 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; gradual irregular boundary.
    BC—140 to 152 centimeters (55.1 to 59.8 inches); variegated strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sand; single grain; loose; 0.9 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; gradual irregular boundary.
    C—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); variegated light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter.