IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Biscay
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972MN1451590
  • User Pedon ID: S1972MN1451590
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1590
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49842
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 45.4575577
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0402679
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 123N
  • Range: 35W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 730 feet north and 2365 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN145—Stearns
  • MLRA: 91A—Central Minnesota Sandy Outwash
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN145—Stearns County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45095-D1—Belgrade, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Charles K. Sutton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, 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 - Biscay
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Biscay
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/22/2010
  • 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 outwash over sandy and gravelly outwash
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/22/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (N 2.5/),, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; loam; weak medium granular, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN159001
    A1—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); black (N 2.5/),, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN159002
    A2—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN159003
    Bg1—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent medium faint dark greenish gray (5G 4/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN159004
    Bg2—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 21 percent medium faint dark greenish gray (5G 4/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 21 percent coarse faint dark greenish gray (5G 4/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN159005
    2Cg—69 to 168 centimeters (27.2 to 66.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) coarse sand; single grain; loose; 21 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4. Lab sample # MN159006