IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Meridian
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MN0491160
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MN0491160
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1160
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49036
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 44.2073250
  • Std. Longitude: -92.6598434
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 109N
  • Range: 15W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4NW1/4NE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN049—Goodhue
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN049—Goodhue County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44092-B6—Pine Island, 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
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dumfries
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/10/2010
  • 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: silty alluvium over loamy alluvium over sandy and gravelly outwash
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/10/2010 (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
    • 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
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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN116001
    E—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN116002
    Bt1—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN116003
    Bt2—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN116004
    Bt3—74 to 84 centimeters (29.1 to 33.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN116005
    2Bw—84 to 104 centimeters (33.1 to 40.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loamy sand; single grain; loose; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN116006
    2E and Bt—104 to 140 centimeters (40.9 to 55.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; fragments. Lab sample # MN116007
    2C—140 to 165 centimeters (55.1 to 65.0 inches); grayish olive (10Y 5/2) coarse sand; single grain; loose; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MN116008