IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Seaton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN055057
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN055057
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 105 - Deep Loess Soils - Glaciated Uplands - FY21 ProjLoamy-Silty Uplands (MN, IA, WI) DSP Project 2021-2024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL2
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2078
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82806
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • 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: 43.5538192
  • Std. Longitude: -91.4798613
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 101N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4SW1/4NE1/4
  • 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 Hapludalfs
  • 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 - Seaton
  • PSC - 23 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/14/2022
  • Classifier - Shaunna Repking
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 23 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/26/2013
  • Classifier - Bryan Hargrave
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • 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: Peoria silty loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/26/2013 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: BCH
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

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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

    6

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    —

    —

    —

    899

    —

    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); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, dry; silt loam; 16 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; common very fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500236. small patches of 10YR4/4
    Bt1—23 to 35 centimeters (9.1 to 13.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior, dry; silt loam; 23 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common very fine roots; common very fine pores; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500237
    Bt2—35 to 64 centimeters (13.8 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior, dry; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky parts to strong fine angular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately plastic; few fine roots; common very fine pores; clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500238
    Bt3—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior and very pale brown (10YR 7/4) exterior, dry; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to strong coarse subangular blocky, and strong medium prismatic parts to strong coarse subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few roots; many very fine tubular pores; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500239
    Bt4—84 to 140 centimeters (33.1 to 55.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/4) exterior and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) exterior, dry; silt loam, silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to strong coarse angular blocky parts to strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few fine roots; many very fine tubular pores; light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silica coats on all faces of peds and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500240
    Bt5—140 to 163 centimeters (55.1 to 64.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior, dry; silt loam; 25 percent clay; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; strong coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few fine roots; common very fine tubular pores; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organoargillans; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500241
    Bt6—163 to 206 centimeters (64.2 to 81.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) exterior, dry; silt loam; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) mottles; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified. Lab sample # MN500242