IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nasset
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974MN1091808
  • User Pedon ID: S1974MN1091808
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1974MN1091808
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1808
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49965
  • 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: 43.8988876
  • Std. Longitude: -92.3094406
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 105N
  • Range: 12W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 2400 feet south and 2370 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: about 3 miles southeast of Marion
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN109—Olmsted
  • 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: MN109—Olmsted County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43092-H3—Marion, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nasset (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/2007
  • Classifier - AGG
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Palsgrove
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/24/1974
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Agronomic Feature - close grown annual crop, or crop-fallow
  • Current Crop - alfalfa
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria silty loess over clayey residuum weathered from dolomite
  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: limestone, unspecified at 112cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/24/1974 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    MEDIC

    Medicago

    alfalfa

    forb

    100

    overstory
    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    —

    —

    —
    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    lithologic discontinuity

    albic horizon

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    —

    —

    0—15

    15—112

    112—

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    2

    —

    —

    329

    —

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    —

    00014925

    ROCHESTER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, MN US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN180801; moist when described;
    E—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium platy, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN180802; moist when described;
    Bt1—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 50 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN180803; moist when described;
    Bt2—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 50 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN180804; moist when described;
    Bt3—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN180805; moist when described;
    2Bt4—94 to 112 centimeters (37.0 to 44.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified. Lab sample # MN180806; moist when described;
    R—112 to 113 centimeters (44.1 to 44.5 inches); bedrock; fragments.