IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shields
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1966MN1311064
  • User Pedon ID: S1966MN1311064
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1064
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49004
  • User Project ID: 2027-2
  • Project Name: MLRA 103 - Ice Contact and Moraine Investigation
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 44.3412361
  • Std. Longitude: -93.4253006
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 110N
  • Range: 22W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4SE1/4SE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN131—Rice
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ALB—Albert Lea, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN131—Rice County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44093-C4—Shieldsville, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Carroll Carlson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shields
  • Classificaton Date - 9/18/2019
  • Classifier - Clayton Johnson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shields
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/26/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey diamicton over loamy ablation till
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/26/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—28

    28—97

    —18—

    —10—

    —69—
    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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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silt loam; cloddy structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN106401
    E—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak medium platy, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN106402
    Btg1—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay; strong fine angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent medium faint olive (5Y 4/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN106403
    Btg2—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) silty clay; strong medium prismatic, and strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent fine faint olive (5Y 4/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN106404
    Btg3—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) silty clay; strong medium prismatic, and strong coarse prismatic structure; firm; 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN106405
    2Cg—97 to 137 centimeters (38.2 to 53.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay loam; massive; friable; 30 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN106406