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RANGK IN CHARACTERISTICS: The depth to the 2C horizon ranges from 20 to 40 inches. The solum ranges from slightly acid to moderately alkaline. Rock fragments, dominantly gravel, ranges from 0 to 5 percent by volume throughout the pedon. The Ap horizon has hue of lOYR. value of 2 or 3. and chroma of I or 2. It is sandy loam, loamy fine sand, loamy sand, fine sand, or sand. A thin AE horizon is present in some pedons. The Bg horizon h.is hue of lOYR or 2.5Y, value of 4 to 6. and chroma of I or 2. It is loamy fine sand, loamy sand, fine sand, or sand. The C horizon has hue of lOYR to 5Y. value of 4 to 6. and chroma of I to 3. It is loamy fine sand, loamy .sand, fine sand, or sand. It is mildly alkaline or moderately alkaline and has slight to strong effervescence. The 2C horizon has hue of lOYR to 5Y. or is neutral; value of 4 to 6; and chroma of 0 to 6. It is clay loam, loam, silt loam, or silty clay loam. Thin lenses of fine sand or sand arc in some pedons. COMPETING SERIES: There are no competing series. Similar soils are the Breckenridge. Brevort. Burleigh. Corunna Ed more. Essex ville. Granbv. Pinconning. Ro.scommon. and Wau.scon scries. Breckenridge. Brevort. Burleigh. Pinconning, and Roscommon soils have frigid tempcraturcf. The Breckenridge and Corunna soils are coarse-loamy. Edmore soils do not have mollic epipedons and are sandy. Essexvillc soils arc calcareous. Granby soils are sandy. VVeuseon soils are coarse-loamy over clayey. GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Belleville soils arc on nearly level lake plains and till plains. Slopes range from 0 to 2 percent. The soils formed in sandy glaciofluvium underlain by loamy glacial or lacustrine sediments at depths of 20 to 40 inches. The mean annual precipitation ranges from 29 to 37 inches, and the mean annual temperature ranges from 46 to 50 degrees F. GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: The well drained and moderately well drained Metea soils and somewhat poorly drained Sclfridge soils arc in a drainage sequence with Belleville soils. In most landscapes with the Belleville soils are the Corunna. Granbv. Oakville. Pewamo. Tedrow. and Thetford soils. The Oakville and Tedrow soils do not have loamy material. The Pewamo soils do not have sandy materi.il. The Thetford DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Poorly and very poorly drained. Surface runoff is very slow or ponded. Permeability is rapid in the sandy horizons and moderately slow in the 2C horizon. USE AND VEGETATION: The greater part of these soils is cropped to corn, soybeans, and small grains. A few areas of these soils are in pasture, idle land, woodland, truck crops, or sod production. The wooded areas are chiefly low land hardwoods. DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: The southeastern pan of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. The series is of moderate extent. 1i