IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ossian

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: S1975MN055055

User Pedon ID: S1975MN055055

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - UMNSSL2

Lab Pedon # - UMN2076

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82804

Print Date: 12/11/2024

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: 43.8290621

Std. Longitude: -91.5456559

Datum: WGS84

GPS - Positional Error: 10.00

Township: 104N

Range: 6W

Section: 10

PLSS Details: NW1/4SE1/4NW1/4

Location Description: low bench which form a pennisula shaped structure formed by two creeks in the upper part of the drainage net of Silver (money creek) abover 10' above creek bottom

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: Bryan Hargrave

Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, 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: Pedon PC6.0B

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Walford

PSC - 25 to 100 cm.

Classificaton Date - 11/26/2013

Classifier - BCH

Moisture Class - udic

Moisture Subclass - aquic

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Toddville

Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls

Taxon Kind - series

PSC - 25 to 100 cm.

Classificaton Date - 11/26/2013

Classifier - BCH

Moisture Class - udic

Moisture SUBClass - typic

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 alluvium

Landform: bench

Slope Complexity: simple

Surface Fragments:

Benchmark Soil?: no

RaCA Information:

Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown

Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 12/1/1975 (actual site observation date)

Data Collector: BCH

Air Photo ID: F-1

Surface Cover Properties:

Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover

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
mollic epipedon aquic conditions ochric epipedon argillic horizon albic horizon redox concentrations	— — — — — —	—- —- —- —- —- —-

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	—	—	—	—		899	—	155	8	22	-5	12	22	2	558	—	0009	LA CRESCENT 0.7 N, MN US	NOAA

Ap—0 to 32 centimeters (0.0 to 12.6 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and dark gray (10YR 4/1) silt loam; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500222. some overwash included in this

E1—32 to 42 centimeters (12.6 to 16.5 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam, very fine sandy loam; moderate thin platy structure; very friable; few fine roots; common very fine tubular pores; silica coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500223. patchy - phpvsfiid 1259958; patchy - phpvsfiid 1259958

E2—42 to 53 centimeters (16.5 to 20.9 inches); 40 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and 60 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) silt loam, very fine sandy loam; moderate thin platy structure; slightly hard, friable; few fine roots; common very fine tubular and common fine tubular pores; light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silica coats; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500224. not sampled

BE—53 to 62 centimeters (20.9 to 24.4 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and dark gray (10YR 4/1), light gray (10YR 7/1), dry; silt loam; 16 percent clay; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium platy, and moderate thin platy structure; slightly hard, very friable; few fine roots; common very fine tubular and common fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. <1mm thick 10YR4/1 moist and 10YR7/1 dry

Bt1—62 to 86 centimeters (24.4 to 33.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine prominent and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic parts to strong coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; common very fine tubular pores; light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silica coats on all faces of peds and very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, coats on surfaces along root channels; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500225

Bt2—86 to 112 centimeters (33.9 to 44.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; many very fine tubular and many fine tubular pores; light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silica coats on all faces of peds and very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, coats on surfaces along root channels and clay films on surfaces along pores; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500226

C—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) silt loam; 20 percent clay; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine prominent and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable; fragments. Lab sample # MN500227. weak cleavage planes, poorly developed pipestem like structures few 10YR2/1 root channels plugged with clay organic matter