IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Onekama
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: Saginaw Lobe
  • User Site ID: S1976MI073004
  • User Pedon ID: S1976MI073004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - S76MI-73-4
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 80322
  • User Project ID: 2016GRR001
  • Project Name: SDJR - MLRA 98 - Perrinton loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • 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: 43.8140167
  • Std. Longitude: -84.8491639
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 105 feet S and 105 feet E of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Vernon Township
  • Map Unit: 22B—Onekama loam, Saginaw Lobe, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI073—Isabella
  • 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: MI073—Isabella County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43084-G7—Clare, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ken Mettert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Glossic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Onekama
  • PSC - 20 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/10/2015
  • Classifier - Matt Bromley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Perrinton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Glossoboric Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/3/1976
  • Classifier - Ken Mettert
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Current Crop - alfalfa
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/3/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Ken Mettert
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    interfingering of albic materials

    argillic horizon

    free carbonates

    0—20

    20—38

    20—53

    66—152

    —20—

    —18—

    —33—

    —86—
    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

    3

    —

    —

    290.8

    —

    809

    —

    161

    8

    20.3

    -4.8

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    205662

    Central Michigan University

    COOP
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); variegated 85 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 10 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 5 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary.
    B/E (E)—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); variegated brown (10YR 5/3) loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary.
    B/E (Bt)—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); variegated dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; common very fine high-continuity tubular and common medium high-continuity tubular and common fine high-continuity tubular pores; 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary.
    Bt—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; common very fine high-continuity tubular pores; 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 77P0778
    C1—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; weak medium angular blocky, and weak coarse angular blocky structure; friable; few very fine high-continuity interstitial pores; 15 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 77P0779
    C2—66 to 127 centimeters (26.0 to 50.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) clay loam; structureless massive; friable; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 77P0780
    C3—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and brown (10YR 5/3) sandy clay loam; structureless massive; friable; 1 percent white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified.