IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Conover
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009MI091005
  • User Pedon ID: S2009MI091005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N1076
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24876
  • 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: 41.7211861
  • Std. Longitude: -83.8562056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9 South
  • Range: 5 East
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 2080 feet north and 875 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: Riga Township
  • Map Unit: NbA—Nappanee loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI091—Lenawee
  • MLRA: 99—Erie-Huron Lake Plain
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FLI—Flint, Michigan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI091—Lenawee County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41083-F7—Berkey, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Daniel J. Wing
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Conover
  • PSC - 23 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/29/2018
  • Classifier - Eric S. Gano
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nappanee
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 23 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/9/2009
  • Classifier - Daniel J. Wing
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: wave-worked till plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/9/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Daniel J. Wing
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    noncoherent

    157 - 203

    - 46 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    densic materials

    0—23

    23—66

    23—157

    157—203

    —23—

    —43—

    —134—

    —46—
    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

    —

    213.8

    —

    844

    —

    160

    9.6

    21.4

    -3.1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    338357

    Toledo Express AP

    COOP
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; clay loam; friable; 1 percent by volume , 1 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N04274; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt—23 to 66 centimeters (9.1 to 26.0 inches); clay loam; friable; masses of oxidized iron and iron depletions; 1 percent by volume , 1 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 5-12-20 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method and 2 percent by volume , 3 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter. Lab sample # 09N04275; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    BC—66 to 102 centimeters (26.0 to 40.2 inches); loam; masses of oxidized iron and iron depletions; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    C—102 to 157 centimeters (40.2 to 61.8 inches); clay loam; 38 percent clay; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Cd—157 to 203 centimeters (61.8 to 79.9 inches); loam; extremely firm; 2 percent by volume , 3 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method and 2 percent by volume , 3 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 5-12-20 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter. Lab sample # 09N04276; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket