IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Becida
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1962MN159428
  • User Pedon ID: S1962MN159428
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL2
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN0428
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82774
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 46.5154234
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1322184
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 135N
  • Range: 35W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet north and 800 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN159—Wadena
  • MLRA: 57—Northern Minnesota Gray Drift
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN159—Wadena County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46095-E2—Sebeka SW, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Orville D. Friedrich
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aquic Glossudalfs
  • 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 - 43 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/15/2013
  • Classifier - Meredith Albers
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Current Crop - alfalfa hay
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till
  • Landscape: drumlin field
  • Landform: interdrumlin
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/3/1962 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    redox concentrations

    glossic horizon

    argillic horizon

    densic contact

    densic materials

    0—43

    18—43

    18—86

    18—86

    43—86

    43—102

    102—102

    102—122

    —43—

    —25—

    —68—

    —68—

    —43—

    —59—

    —-

    —20—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    90

    680

    —

    135

    5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500034; moist when described;
    AE—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) sandy loam; weak fine platy structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described;. common fine distinct mottles, kind not indicated.
    E1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) and gray (2.5Y 5/1) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and light gray (2.5Y 7/2) sandy loam; weak very fine platy structure; friable; 30 percent fine distinct iron-manganese masses; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500036; moist when described;. 7.5YR colors include some relic B horizon
    E2—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) sandy loam; weak fine platy structure; friable; 30 percent medium distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, and dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, and brown (10YR 4/3), moist, and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500037; moist when described;
    B/E1—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); 45 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 25 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loamy sand, sandy loam, sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 5 percent fine faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500038; moist when described;
    B/E2—69 to 86 centimeters (27.2 to 33.9 inches); 35 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) and 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 30 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) sandy loam, sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 5 percent organoargillans; 5 percent fine faint dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500039; moist when described;
    Bt—86 to 102 centimeters (33.9 to 40.2 inches); 40 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 30 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and 30 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) crushed sandy clay loam; moderate medium platy structure; hard, firm; 60 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organoargillans on vertical faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500040; moist when described;
    BC—102 to 122 centimeters (40.2 to 48.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable; carbonate coats; carbonate laminae; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7. Lab sample # MN500041; moist when described;