IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Spinks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MI075004
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MI075004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1915
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36073
  • 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: 42.1675972
  • Std. Longitude: -84.3669778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet S and 1,910 feet E of the center
  • Map Unit: 14B—Spinks sand, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI075—Jackson
  • MLRA: 111B—Indiana and Ohio Till Plain, Northeastern Part
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FIN—Findlay, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI075—Jackson County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42084-B3—Michigan Center, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: N. Stroesenreuther and R. Engel
  • 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 #: 4
  • 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 glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landscape: ice-margin complex
  • Landform: moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • 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: Robert Engel
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    lamellae

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    73—172

    73—172

    —15—

    —99—

    —99—
    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

    —

    —

    300.7

    —

    782

    —

    156

    8.9

    21

    -3.8

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    204150

    Jackson Reynolds Field

    COOP
    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sand; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; common roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A15237
    Bw—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine sand; single grain; loose; few roots; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A15238
    E—46 to 73 centimeters (18.1 to 28.7 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine sand; single grain; loose; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A15239
    E&Bt (E)—73 to 172 centimeters (28.7 to 67.7 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine sand; single grain; loose; fragments; 64 percent lamellae (volume percent); moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A15240
    E&Bt (Bt)—73 to 172 centimeters (28.7 to 67.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A15240. 40A15241; originally horizon was A&B