IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Becida

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: S1962MN111429

User Pedon ID: S1962MN111429

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes

Lab Source ID - UMNSSL2

Lab Pedon # - UMN0429

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82775

Print Date: 11/23/2024

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: 46.5071180

Std. Longitude: -95.2210883

Datum: WGS84

Township: 135N

Range: 36W

Section: 16

PLSS Details: 50 feet north of the road and 500 feet east of the southwest corner of the SE1/4NE1/4

Country: US—United States

State: Minnesota

County: MN111—Otter Tail

MLRA: 57—Northern Minnesota Gray Drift

Regional Office: NC—North Central

Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN111—Otter Tail County, Minnesota

7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46095-E2—Sebeka SW, Minnesota

PEDON

Describers Name: Roy A. Erickson

Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Glossaqualfs

Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct

Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series

Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site

Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Becida

PSC - 15 to 65 cm.

Classificaton Date - 4/8/2013

Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition

Moisture Class - aquic

Moisture Subclass - typic

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: yes

Certification Status: certified

QC Status: level 1

QA Status: level 2

SITE

Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till

Landscape: drumlin field

Landform: drumlin

Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope

Hill Slope Profile: footslope

Drainage Class: very poorly

Surface Fragments:

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 10/31/1962 (actual site observation date)

Air Photo ID: 3M-191

Surface Cover Properties:

Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover

Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Drained? - no

Bedded Soil? - no

Forest Plantation? - no

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
albic horizon ochric epipedon redox concentrations redox depletions with chroma 2 or less glossic horizon argillic horizon densic contact densic materials	0—15 0—15 0—53 0—81 15—53 15—81 99—99 99—122	—15— —15— —53— —81— —38— —66— —- —23—

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
0.5	—	—	—	—	180	680	—	135	5	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

O—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) muck, loam; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500027; moist when described;. muck and turf; includes 3/4 inch of turf

Eg—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable; 15 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, and brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500028; moist when described;. No evidence observed that 7.5YR colors are B remnants rather than mottles.

E/B—23 to 44 centimeters (9.1 to 17.3 inches); 70 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable; dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500029; moist when described;. Some evidence of weak, coarse, angular blocky structure perhaps remnant; 7.5YR and 2.5YR colors probably includes mottles.

B/E—44 to 61 centimeters (17.3 to 24.0 inches); 85 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 15 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loamy sand, sandy loam; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 60 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, and dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels and 60 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, and dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500030; moist when described;

Bt—61 to 89 centimeters (24.0 to 35.0 inches); 65 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 35 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) sandy loam; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 60 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, and dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 60 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, and dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500031; moist when described;. numerous thick 10YR 3/2 to 4/1 on peds and root channels, clean sand grains around gravel pieces.

BC—89 to 107 centimeters (35.0 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; weak coarse angular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, and dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500032; moist when described;

Cd—107 to 130 centimeters (42.1 to 51.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) sandy loam; massive; very friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # MN500033; moist when described;. some evidence of horizontal deposition pattern in layers