IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ahmeek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977MN137001
  • User Pedon ID: 77MN137001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0113
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45122
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 46.8877716
  • Std. Longitude: -92.0373993
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 51N
  • Range: 13W
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 800 meters S and 800 meters W of NE corner
  • Location Description: About 8 Km N of Duluth, About 31 meters N of road.
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN137—St. Louis

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Lewis
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ahmeek
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ahmeek
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    fragipan

    0—10

    10—53

    53—142

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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

    11

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    1A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior gravelly silt loam; weak very fine and fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 30 percent worm casts; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P00580. many worm casts concentrations; many very fine roots; many coarse roots
    1B—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior and black (10YR 2/1) interior gravelly silt loam; 1 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) mottles; moderate very fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 1 percent worm casts; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P00581. few worm casts concentrations; many very fine roots; many coarse roots; very few to few 5YR32 mottles
    1B2hir—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderately smeary; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P00582. many very fine roots; many coarse roots
    1B3—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; weak medium and coarse platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P00583. few very fine roots
    1C1x—53 to 96 centimeters (20.9 to 37.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; weak medium and coarse platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.1 fine roots; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P00584. very few fine roots
    1C2x—96 to 142 centimeters (37.8 to 55.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium and coarse platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 78P00585