IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Capac
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980MI081005
  • User Pedon ID: S1980MI081005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1980MI081005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MTU
  • Lab Pedon # - S80MI-81-5
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71424
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 42.8003833
  • Std. Longitude: -85.3576944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 9W
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 725 feet north and 2,190 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: Bowne Township
  • Map Unit: 37B—Capac loam, Lake Michigan lobe, 0 to 4 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: 42085-G3—Freeport, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Trettin, M. Miller, K. Farrish
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Glossudalfs
  • 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 - Capac
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/22/2013
  • Classifier - M. Bromley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Capac
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Aeric Ochraqualfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1980
  • Classifier - C. Trettin, M. Miller, K. Farrish
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/22/2013 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: M. Bromley
  • Air Photo ID: 102
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACSA3

    FAGR

    Acer saccharum

    Fagus grandifolia

    sugar maple

    American beech

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

    ochric epipedon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    albic horizon

    aquic conditions

    glossic horizon

    argillic horizon

    free carbonates

    0—25

    19—62

    19—25

    19—130

    25—62

    36—95

    95—130

    —25—

    —43—

    —6—

    —111—

    —37—

    —59—

    —35—
    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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    248.9

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    906

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    8.7

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    A—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; many fine roots and common coarse roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MTU80256
    E—19 to 25 centimeters (7.5 to 9.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common fine roots; 1 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 1 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; abrupt broken boundary.
    E/B (E)—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); 70 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common fine roots; 10 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 10 percent prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MTU80257
    E/B (Bt)—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; fragments.
    B/E (E)—36 to 62 centimeters (14.2 to 24.4 inches); 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face loam; fragments.
    B/E (Bt)—36 to 62 centimeters (14.2 to 24.4 inches); 70 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; common medium roots and common fine roots; 1 percent prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 10 percent faint masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MTU80258
    Bt—62 to 95 centimeters (24.4 to 37.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face clay loam; moderate thick platy structure; firm; common fine roots between peds; 40 percent prominent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MTU80259
    C—95 to 130 centimeters (37.4 to 51.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) faint mottles; massive; very firm; few fine roots; 1 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 9 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, unspecified. Lab sample # MTU80260