IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Coloma
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979MI085001
  • User Pedon ID: S1979MI085001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1979MI085001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MTU
  • Lab Pedon # - S79MI-85-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69569
  • User Project ID: 22667
  • Project Name: Lake and Wexford Counties, Michigan - Update needed
  • 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: 43.9833861
  • Std. Longitude: -85.9034194
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18 North
  • Range: 13 West
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 1850 feet south and 325 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Webber Township
  • Map Unit: 29B—Coloma sand, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI085—Lake
  • 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: MI600—Lake and Wexford Counties, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43085-H8—Townsend Lake, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Edward A. Tompkins, Donald E. Buchanan, Carl C. Trettin, Gary S. LeMasters, David H. Tufvesson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Lamellic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Coloma
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/16/2013
  • Classifier - M. Bromley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Graycalm
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, frigid Alfic Udipsamments
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/25/1979
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy outwash
  • Landscape: ice-margin complex
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/25/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Edward A. Tompkins
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • 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
  • SAF Cover Type: northern pin oak
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CAREX

    EPRE2

    FRAGA

    GAPR2

    MYAS

    PIBA2

    PIST

    PRSE2

    PTAQ

    QUAL

    QUEL

    ROSA5

    VACCI

    Carex

    Epigaea repens

    Fragaria

    Gaultheria procumbens

    Myrica aspleniifolia

    Pinus banksiana

    Pinus strobus

    Prunus serotina

    Pteridium aquilinum

    Quercus alba

    Quercus ellipsoidalis

    Rosa

    Vaccinium

    sedge

    trailing arbutus

    strawberry

    eastern teaberry

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    jack pine

    eastern white pine

    black cherry

    western brackenfern

    white oak

    northern pin oak

    rose

    blueberry

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

    ochric epipedon

    lamellae

    0—6

    70—265

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    —195—
    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

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    30

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    289.7

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    220

    847

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    146

    8.1

    19.4

    -3.7

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    432

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    205065

    Manistee 3SE

    COOP
    A—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; rapid permeability; many fine roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MTU79351
    Bw1—6 to 19 centimeters (2.4 to 7.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; common medium roots and many fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MTU79352
    Bw2—19 to 42 centimeters (7.5 to 16.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; loose; rapid permeability; common medium roots and common fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MTU79353
    BC—42 to 70 centimeters (16.5 to 27.6 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; loose; rapid permeability; few medium roots and few fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MTU79354
    E and Bt (Bt—70 to 265 centimeters (27.6 to 104.3 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine sand, loamy fine sand; structureless single grain; loose; rapid permeability; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter. Lab sample # MTU79355
    E and Bt (E)—70 to 265 centimeters (27.6 to 104.3 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine sand, loamy fine sand; structureless single grain; loose; rapid permeability; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter. Lab sample # MTU79355