IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Meridian
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MN0491159
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MN0491159
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1159
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49035
  • Print Date: 1/27/2025

    • 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: 44.3071136
  • Std. Longitude: -92.8433151
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 110N
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4NW1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN049—Goodhue
  • MLRA: 105—Upper Mississippi River Bedrock Controlled Uplands and Valleys
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ONA—Onalaska, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN049—Goodhue County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44092-C7—Wanamingo, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: George Poch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • 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 - Meridian
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dumfries
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/10/2010
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • 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: silty alluvium over loamy alluvium over sandy and gravelly outwash
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/10/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    albic horizon

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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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    —

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    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00219249

    ZUMBROTA, MN US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak thin platy, and moderate thin platy structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN115901
    E—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); silt loam; weak thin platy structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN115902
    Bt1—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN115903
    Bt2—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN115904
    Bt3—66 to 76 centimeters (26.0 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN115905
    2C1—76 to 140 centimeters (29.9 to 55.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly loamy sand; single grain; very friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN115906
    2C2—140 centimeters (55.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) sand; single grain; fragments.