IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brookston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005MI049009
  • User Pedon ID: S2005MI049009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0255
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18552
  • 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: 43.0122694
  • Std. Longitude: -83.8126111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 1,120 feet south and 85 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Clayton Township
  • Map Unit: BroaaA—Brookston loam, dense substratum, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI049—Genesee
  • 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: MI049—Genesee County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43083-A7—Flushing, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joe Calus
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brookston
  • Classificaton Date - 7/7/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brookston
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiaquolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/7/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: swale on ground moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/7/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Joe Calus
  • Air Photo ID: 24
  • Hydrology Status: drier than natural
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

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    122 -

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

    densic materials

    122—

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    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

    1

    —

    —

    232

    —

    801

    —

    159

    8.6

    20.4

    -4.1

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    202846

    Flint FCWOS

    COOP
    C1—122 to 203 centimeters (48.0 to 79.9 inches); weak red (2.5YR 5/2) sandy clay loam; massive; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 07N01421; observed in trench