IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Spinks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MI021010
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MI021010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1975MI021010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1914
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36072
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 42.2030678
  • Std. Longitude: -86.3185806
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 960 feet N and 520 feet E of the SW corner
  • Map Unit: 13B—Spinks loamy fine sand, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI021—Berrien
  • MLRA: 97—Southwestern Michigan Fruit and Vegetable Crop Belt
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-GRP—Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI021—Berrien County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42086-B3—Coloma, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: N. Stroesenreuther and J. Larson
  • 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: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Spinks
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/5/2014
  • Classifier - M. Bromley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Spinks
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, mesic Psammentic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/10/1975
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy drift
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/10/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Neil Stroesenreuther
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    RHEUM

    Rheum

    rhubarb

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

    ochric epipedon

    lamellae

    argillic horizon

    lamellae

    0—41

    41—81

    41—152

    101—152

    —41—

    —40—

    —111—

    —51—
    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

    2

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    194.6

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    940

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    9.6

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loamy fine sand; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A15230
    E—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine sand; weak medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A15231
    E&Bt (Bt)—41 to 81 centimeters (16.1 to 31.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) loamy fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A15232. 40A15233; horizon was originally A2&B21t
    E&Bt (E)—41 to 81 centimeters (16.1 to 31.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine sand; single grain; loose; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A15232
    2Bt—81 to 101 centimeters (31.9 to 39.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) gravelly coarse sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A15234
    3E'—101 to 152 centimeters (39.8 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine sand; single grain; loose; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A15235
    3B't—101 to 152 centimeters (39.8 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) loamy fine sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay bridges between sand grains; 1 percent fine dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A15235. 40A15236; horizon was originally 3A'2&B'2t