IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Riddles
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979MI081002
  • User Pedon ID: S1979MI081002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1979MI081002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MTU
  • Lab Pedon # - S79MI-81-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69162
  • User Project ID: 2024GRR009
  • Project Name: EVAL - MLRA 98 - Riddles sandy loam, 1 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: 43.1575833
  • Std. Longitude: -85.6066389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: NW of SE of NW 1/4; 1155 ft S and 1155 ft E of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Algoma Township: 1155 ft S and 1155 ft E of the NW corner
  • Map Unit: 22C—Oshtemo sandy loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI081—Kent
  • 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: MI081—Kent County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43085-B5—Cedar Springs, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Trettin, K. Pregitzer, D. Tufvesson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Riddles
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/2/2024
  • Classifier - Sydney Lance
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - thirteenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Remus
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Glossoboric Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1979
  • Classifier - C. Trettin, K. Pregitzer, D. Tufvesson
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Ksat Class Upper: moderately high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    F098XA015MI Dry Loamy Drift Plains Apr 3 2024 Sydney Lance

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/2013 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: M. Bromley
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    ACSA3

    OSVI

    PRSE2

    QUERC

    Acer saccharum

    Ostrya virginiana

    Prunus serotina

    Quercus

    sugar maple

    hophornbeam

    black cherry

    oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    fragic soil properties

    argillic horizon

    lamellae

    abrupt textural change

    0—38

    31—38

    38—107

    107—170

    107—170

    —38—

    —7—

    —69—

    —63—

    —63—
    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

    61

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    238.7

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    180

    881

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    138

    8.3

    20.3

    -4.6

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    203429

    Greenville 2 NNE

    NWS COOP
    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; many fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MTU7942
    Bw—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; few medium roots and many fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # MTU7943
    E—18 to 31 centimeters (7.1 to 12.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few medium roots and many fine roots; 4 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # MTU7944
    Ex—31 to 38 centimeters (12.2 to 15.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry; fine sandy loam; moderate thin platy parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; firm; few fine roots; few fine pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MTU7945
    Bt/E (Bt)—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); variegated 85 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; common fine roots; 4 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MTU7946
    Bt/E (E)—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; fragments.
    Bt1—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); variegated 90 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; moderate subangular blocky structure; firm; common fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MTU7947
    Bt2—84 to 107 centimeters (33.1 to 42.1 inches); variegated 95 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; common fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MTU7948
    E and Bt (E)—107 to 170 centimeters (42.1 to 66.9 inches); 80 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine sand; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter.
    E and Bt (Bt)—107 to 170 centimeters (42.1 to 66.9 inches); 20 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; few fine roots; fragments; 20 percent lamellae (volume percent); moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter. Lab sample # MTU7949, MTU7950