IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muscatune
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973MN1091695
  • User Pedon ID: S1973MN1091695
  • User Site Association ID: NC-WAV_Garwin - SDJR pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1695
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49879
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 44.0676498
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5733185
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 107N
  • Range: 15W
  • Section: 13
  • Location Description: 900 feet north and 1380 feet east of the SW corner of the SW1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN109—Olmsted
  • 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: MN109—Olmsted County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44092-A5—Douglas, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscatune
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/10/2021
  • Classifier - Michael England
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Garwin
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/6/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty loess
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/6/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN169501
    A—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN169502
    Bt—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine granular structure; friable; 3 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN169503
    Btg1—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 26 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; 21 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN169504
    Btg2—66 to 84 centimeters (26.0 to 33.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; 21 percent medium prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN169505
    BCg—84 to 102 centimeters (33.1 to 40.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 21 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN169506
    Cg1—102 to 165 centimeters (40.2 to 65.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 21 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent medium faint gray (5Y 5/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN169507
    Cg2—165 to 185 centimeters (65.0 to 72.8 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) silt loam; massive; friable; 21 percent coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6. Lab sample # MN169508