IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Zwingle
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN055048
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN055048
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL2
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2069
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82797
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 43.6105896
  • Std. Longitude: -91.3445142
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 102N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4NW1/4
  • Location Description: about 40 feet above the floodplain
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN055—Houston
  • 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: MN055—Houston County, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Albaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: variant
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC6.0B
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Zwingle
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/25/2013
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zwingle
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Albaqualfs
  • Taxon Kind - variant
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/25/2013
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • 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: lacustrine deposits
  • Landform: terrace
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/19/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Air Photo ID: K18
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    aquic conditions

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    albic horizon

    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

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    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    0009

    LA CRESCENT 0.7 N, MN US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few very fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500173
    E—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 12 percent clay; dark gray (10YR 4/1) fine distinct and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak very thin platy structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine tubular pores; worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500174
    BE—33 to 44 centimeters (13.0 to 17.3 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silt loam; 18 percent clay; olive gray (5Y 5/2) fine distinct and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few very fine roots and few fine roots; common very fine tubular and common fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500175
    Bt1—44 to 53 centimeters (17.3 to 20.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silt loam; 25 percent clay; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine distinct and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few very fine roots; many very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500176
    Bt2—53 to 61 centimeters (20.9 to 24.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and reddish gray (5YR 5/2) silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; olive gray (5Y 5/2) fine distinct and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to strong very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500177
    Bt3—61 to 70 centimeters (24.0 to 27.6 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) and reddish gray (5YR 5/2) silty clay, clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to strong coarse angular blocky parts to strong very fine angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; few very fine roots; common very fine tubular pores; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500178. continuous - phpvsfiid 1259919; continuous - phpvsfiid 1259919
    Bt4—70 to 117 centimeters (27.6 to 46.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and olive gray (5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very fine prominent mottles; strong coarse prismatic parts to strong coarse subangular blocky parts to strong very fine subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few very fine roots; common very fine tubular pores; clay films; fragments. Lab sample # MN500179. 2.5Y5/2 silty clay loam to silty clay (35%-45% clay) with thin seams and patches of 5Y5/2 silty clay (50% clay); silt loam below