IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Downs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MN0491164
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MN0491164
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 105 - Deep Loess Soils - Glaciated Uplands - FY21 ProjLoamy-Silty Uplands (MN, IA, WI) DSP Project 2021-2024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1164
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47673
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 44.5170708
  • Std. Longitude: -92.6326370
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 112N
  • Range: 15W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4SE1/4SE1/4
  • 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-E6—Welch, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: George Poch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, 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: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Downs
  • PSC - 23 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/14/2022
  • Classifier - Shaunna Repking
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Timula
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Eutrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 23 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/22/1970
  • Classifier - George A Poch
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria silty loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/22/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • 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

    argillic 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

    5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    270

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00219249

    ZUMBROTA, MN US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, unspecified. Lab sample # MN116401; moist when described;
    Bt1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 75 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified. Lab sample # MN116402; moist when described;
    Bt2—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified. Lab sample # MN116403; moist when described;
    C1—53 to 94 centimeters (20.9 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified. Lab sample # MN116404; moist when described;
    C2—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) silt loam; very friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, unspecified. Lab sample # MN116405; moist when described;
    C2—152 to 178 centimeters (59.8 to 70.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) silt loam; very friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, unspecified. Lab sample # MN116406; moist when described;