IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Merit
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN055063
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN055063
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL2
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2085
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82812
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 43.5173383
  • Std. Longitude: -91.2968596
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 101N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4SE1/4SE1/4
  • Location Description: Dissected bench along the lower reaches of Winnebago creek. The bench is 40 to 60 feet aabout the 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: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC6.0B
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Merit
  • PSC - 42 to 92 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/4/2018
  • Classifier - Shaunna Repking
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Moneycreek
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 42 to 92 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/26/2013
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • 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: alluvium
  • 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: 11/26/2013 (entry creation 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    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

    1

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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 27 centimeters (0.0 to 10.6 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; 12 percent clay; cloddy structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500262
    AB—27 to 42 centimeters (10.6 to 16.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) exterior silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # MN500263
    Bt1—42 to 58 centimeters (16.5 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) exterior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500264
    Bt2—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many very fine tubular pores; black (10YR 2/1), moist, organoargillans and brown (10YR 5/3), moist, coats; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500265
    Bt3—81 to 98 centimeters (31.9 to 38.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and brown (10YR 5/3) exterior loam; 23 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many very fine tubular pores; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organoargillans; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500266
    Bt4—98 to 137 centimeters (38.6 to 53.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior loam; 22 percent clay; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine distinct and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few very fine roots; many very fine tubular pores; coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500267. mottles are in lower 3-4" of horizon
    Bt5—137 to 193 centimeters (53.9 to 76.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; 17 percent clay; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine faint and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; weak very coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky, and moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate very coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine tubular pores; organoargillans on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500268. patchy - phpvsfiid 1259994; patchy - phpvsfiid 1259994
    2C—193 to 229 centimeters (76.0 to 90.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) stratified stratified fine sandy loam to loam to loamy sand; 20 percent clay; friable; fragments. Lab sample # MN500269. low in silt; loamy sand layers about 20% of strata volume