IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Faxon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MN1311069
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MN1311069
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1069
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49681
  • User Project ID: 2029-3
  • Project Name: MLRA 103 - Ice Contact and Moraine Investigation
  • Print Date: 1/10/2025

    • 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: 44.4194450
  • Std. Longitude: -93.1988907
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 111N
  • Range: 20W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 2000 feet north and 460 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: about 2 miles west and 3 miles south of Northfield
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN131—Rice
  • 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: MN131—Rice County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44093-D2—Northfield, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Carroll Carlson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Endoaquolls
  • 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 - Faxon
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Faxon
  • 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: loamy drift
  • Landform: terrace, structural bench
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Bedrock: limestone, unspecified at 86cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/26/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    0—38

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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

    1

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    699

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    9

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    A1—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (N 2/), loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN106901
    A2—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN106902
    Bg1—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN106903
    Bg2—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) loam; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 21 percent coarse prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent coarse prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN106904
    Bg3—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); greenish gray (5GY 5/1) loam; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 21 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN106905
    R—86 centimeters (33.9 inches); fragments.