IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Spencer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973MN1631725
  • User Pedon ID: S1973MN1631725
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1725
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49909
  • 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: 44.9616547
  • Std. Longitude: -92.9214401
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 29N
  • Range: 21W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 680 feet south and 600 feet west of the northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN163—Washington
  • MLRA: 90B—Central Wisconsin Thin Loess Dissected Till Plain
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-RHI—Rhinelander, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN163—Washington County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44092-H8—Lake Elmo, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Aquic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Spencer
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Spencer
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/7/2011
  • 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: silty lacustrine deposits over loamy till
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/7/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • 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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak very fine angular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN172501
    E—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak thick platy structure; friable; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # MN172502
    B/E—38 to 48 centimeters (15.0 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak thick platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN172503
    Bt1—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6 percent clay films on bottom faces of peds and 26 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 1 percent medium faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN172504
    Bt2—74 to 91 centimeters (29.1 to 35.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent medium faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN172505
    2BCd—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak very thick platy structure; firm; 8 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2. Lab sample # MN172506