IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Giese
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957MN095005
  • User Pedon ID: S1957MN095005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1957MN095005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1674
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35282
  • 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: 45.8691627
  • Std. Longitude: -93.7030419
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 39N
  • Range: 27W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: Northwest quarter of southwest quarter of southwest quarter
  • Location Description: Site is 0.2 miles north of southwest section corner in woodlot approximately 100 yards east of road and 20 feet north of south boundary of woods.
  • 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: coarse-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:
  • 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

    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

    mollic epipedon

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

    0—33

    0—112

    13—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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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); black (N 2/0) mucky silty clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A13240; moist when described;
    Ag—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); black (N 2/0) and dark gray (N 4/0) silt loam; weak thin platy parts to weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; medium distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A13241; moist when described;. Horizon was described as having common redoximorphic concentrations; no percentage given.
    C1—33 to 81 centimeters (13.0 to 31.9 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) silt loam; massive parts to weak very fine subangular blocky; friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A13242; moist when described;
    2C2—81 to 112 centimeters (31.9 to 44.1 inches); reddish gray (5YR 5/2) exterior and reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 tubular pores; medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A13243; moist when described;. Pores are old root channels filled with material from above horizon.; Horizon was described as having common redoximorphic concentrations; no percentage given.
    2C—112 to 137 centimeters (44.1 to 53.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly plastic; medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # 40A13244; moist when described;. Smears of reddish gray (5YR 5/2); contains many gravel 1/2 to 2 inches in diameter that exhibits some tendency towards horizontal breakage.