IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Roscommon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: A95MN137077
  • User Pedon ID: A95MN137077
  • Vegetation Plot ID: A95MN137077
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0810
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14898
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 47.6599960
  • Std. Longitude: -93.0396652
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 60N
  • Range: 21W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 600 feet south and 100 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: A5A—Roscommon muck, depressional, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN137—St. Louis
  • MLRA: 57—Northern Minnesota Gray Drift
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN621—St. Louis County, Minnesota, Virginia Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47093-F1—Side Lake, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tuve
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, frigid Mollic Psammaquents
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Roscommon
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, frigid Mollic Psammaquents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/26/1995
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: outwash
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/26/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 334SE
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PIMA

    ABBA

    BEPA

    Picea mariana

    Abies balsamea

    Betula papyrifera

    black spruce

    balsam fir

    paper birch

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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

    0

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    421

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    OA—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) muck; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    EG—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    BG1—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) sand; single grain; loose; 15 percent coarse prominent irregular brown (7.5YR 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 15 percent medium prominent irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; wet when described;
    BG2—48 to 84 centimeters (18.9 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sand; single grain; loose; 40 percent coarse irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; wet when described;
    CG—84 to 203 centimeters (33.1 to 79.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog.; wet when described;