IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Giese
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957MN095002
  • User Pedon ID: S1957MN095002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1957MN095002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1673
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35281
  • User Project ID: MLCU_10-DUL19
  • Project Name: MLRA 90A - Mille Lacs Uplands Coarse-Loamy Basal Till Investigation
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 45.7659821
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5973006
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 38N
  • Range: 26W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: Southwest quarter of southwest quarter
  • Location Description: Site is in a woodlot 0.4 miles south of the junction of state route 23 and county road 11, 50 yards east of county road 11 and 30 yards north of the south edge of the woodlot.
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN095—Mille Lacs
  • MLRA: 90A—Wisconsin and Minnesota Thin Loess and Till
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN095—Mille Lacs County, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. H. Paschall.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, nonacid, frigid Typic Humaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Giese
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/19/2019
  • Classifier - B. Schug
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Adolph
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty glaciolacustrine deposits over coarse-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Slope Position: depression
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.01 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ALNUS

    ULMUS

    Alnus

    Ulmus

    alder

    elm

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

    ochric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    0—15

    15—137

    30—107

    122—137

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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

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (N 2/0) mucky silty clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A13233; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ag—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A13234; moist when described; observed in pit, small. A few gravel 1 to 2 inches in size.
    Cg1—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silt loam; massive parts to weak very fine angular blocky; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; fine distinct olive (5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and manganese masses on surfaces along root channels; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A13235; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Horizon was described as having many black stained root channels. This was assumed to be manganese masses. Horizon also described as having common redoximorphic concentrations; no percentage given.
    2Cg2—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) loam; massive parts to weak very fine angular blocky; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A13236; moist when described; observed in pit, small. A few gravel 1 to 2 inches in size.; Horizon was described as having common redoximorphic concentrations; no percentage given.
    2C1—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); reddish gray (5YR 5/2) loam; massive parts to weak coarse subangular blocky; friable; 21.0 fine tubular pores; medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and manganese masses on surfaces along root channels; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A13237; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Horizon was described as having many black stained root channels. This was assumed to be manganese masses. Horizon also was described as having common redoximorphic concentrations; no percentage given.
    2C2—107 to 122 centimeters (42.1 to 48.0 inches); 50 percent brown (7.5YR 5/2) and brown (7.5YR 4/2) and 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine sandy loam; weak medium angular blocky, and weak and moderate coarse angular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 fine tubular pores; manganese masses on surfaces along root channels; fragments. Lab sample # 40A13238; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Horizon was described as having many black stained root channels. This was assumed to be manganese masses.; Few fine pebbles and gravel.
    2C3—122 to 137 centimeters (48.0 to 53.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) fine sandy loam; weak coarse angular blocky structure; distinct reddish gray (5YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions on surfaces along root channels and iron-manganese concretions on surfaces along root channels; fragments. Lab sample # 40A13239; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Horizon was described as having many black stained root channels. This was assumed to be manganese masses. Horizon also described as having redoximorphic depletions; no percentage or amount given.