IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vasa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1971MN0491278
  • User Pedon ID: S1971MN0491278
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1278
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47681
  • 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: 44.3998299
  • Std. Longitude: -92.7018661
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 111N
  • Range: 16W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet north and 150 feet west of the southeast corner of the SW1/4
  • 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-D6—Goodhue West, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: George Poch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Oxyaquic 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 - Vasa
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vasa
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/15/1971
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over till
  • Landform: loess hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/15/1971 (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

    lithologic discontinuity

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

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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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    180

    899

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    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), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN127801; moist when described;
    Bt1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; 65 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 33 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, worm casts in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN127802; moist when described;
    Bt2—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; 65 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 33 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, worm casts on surfaces along root channels; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN127803; moist when described;
    Bt3—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; 30 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent medium grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN127804; moist when described;
    Bt4—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 65 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 33 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN127805; moist when described;
    BC—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 65 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 33 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN127806; moist when described;
    C1—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; 33 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN127807; moist when described;
    2C2—152 to 165 centimeters (59.8 to 65.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) loam; firm; 4 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, unspecified. Lab sample # MN127808; moist when described;