IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Milaca
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1963MN009003
  • User Pedon ID: 63MN009003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1729
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35887
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 38N
  • Range: 29W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4 NW1/4
  • Location Description: Benton County, 150 feet from hwy into wood pasture - NW from driveway into pasture.
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN009—Benton

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W.W. Anderson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Typic Fragiochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Milaca
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Typic Fragiochrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: dead ice moraine
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1963 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    O1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A13687. LSL18877; partly decomposed leaves with some grass
    A1—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior fine sandy loam, loam; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A13688. LSL18878
    A21—6 to 13 centimeters (2.4 to 5.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior sandy loam; weak and moderate fine and medium platy structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A13689. LSL18879
    A22—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) interior and brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior sandy loam; weak and moderate fine and medium platy structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A13690. LSL18880
    Bx1—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior and reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior sandy loam; weak medium platy, and moderate medium platy structure; hard, friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A13691. LSL18881; firm in place when moist; vesicular; slightly redder root staining between some of the plates
    Bx2—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior sandy loam; weak medium platy, and structureless massive; hard, friable; 2 percent , moist, clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A13692. LSL18882; very firm in place when moist; vesicular; clay films are on surface of plates; boundary was not described; very few clay films surface features
    Bx3—74 to 105 centimeters (29.1 to 41.3 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior sandy clay loam; 1 percent dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) coarse faint mottles; moderate fine and medium platy structure; hard, friable; , moist, clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A13693. LSL18883; mottles have reddish brown (5YR 4/4) rings around them; very firm in place when moist; clay films in some pores and pebble sockets; boundary was not described; this was thought to be a good fragipan; few coarse faint 5YR42 mottles
    C1x—105 to 143 centimeters (41.3 to 56.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior sandy clay loam; moderate fine and medium platy structure; hard, friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A13694. LSL18884; very firm in place when moist; boundary was not described
    C2x—143 to 186 centimeters (56.3 to 73.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior sandy clay loam; moderate fine and medium platy structure; hard, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A13695. LSL18885; very firm in place when moist