IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Orion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN055060
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN055060
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL2
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2082
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82810
  • 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: 43.7058071
  • Std. Longitude: -91.3863883
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 103N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4SE1/4SW1/4
  • Location Description: Bottomland along Thompson creek. Along edge of bottom just below footslopes
  • 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: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Aquic Udifluvents
  • 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 - Orion
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/5/1975
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chaseburg
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Typic Udifluvents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/5/1975
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • 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
  • 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: 1/5/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • 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

    lithologic discontinuity

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    —

    0009

    LA CRESCENT 0.7 N, MN US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; 16 percent clay; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine distinct and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; cloddy structure; very friable; few fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # MN500420
    C1—20 to 49 centimeters (7.9 to 19.3 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine distinct and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; weak thin platy parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; very friable; many very fine tubular and many medium tubular and many fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500421
    C2—49 to 55 centimeters (19.3 to 21.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine distinct and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; weak very fine angular blocky structure; very friable; many very fine tubular and many medium tubular and many fine tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # MN500422
    C3—55 to 96 centimeters (21.7 to 37.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine prominent and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; structureless massive; very friable; many very fine tubular and many medium tubular and many fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN400422
    2Ab—96 to 114 centimeters (37.8 to 44.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; 20 percent clay; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; common very fine tubular and common fine tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # MN500423
    2Bt—114 to 153 centimeters (44.9 to 60.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silt loam; 23 percent clay; olive (5Y 4/4) fine prominent and olive (5Y 4/4) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; many very fine and many fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500424. mottles appear to be mostly 1-4mm "pipestems"
    2C—153 to 178 centimeters (60.2 to 70.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; 20 percent clay; yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine prominent and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; few roots; fragments. Lab sample # MN500425. some pipestems