IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Littleswan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN0611979
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN0611979
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1979
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50059
  • User Project ID: BAUD_10-BEM19
  • Project Name: MLRA 88 - Glacial Lake Plain Baudette Catena
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 47.1797760
  • Std. Longitude: -93.2787980
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 54N
  • Range: 23W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4NW1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN061—Itasca
  • MLRA: 88—Northern Minnesota Glacial Lake Basins
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-BEM—Bemidji, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN061—Itasca County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47094-F3—Alvwood, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Paul R. C. Nyberg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Littleswan
  • PSC - 28 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/16/2019
  • Classifier - PMB
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/24/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty glaciolacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: lake plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 88

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/24/2011 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    interfingering of albic materials

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    0—23

    23—28

    28—84

    48—122

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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

    2

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    —

    —

    —

    315

    670

    —

    120

    4

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    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN197901
    E—18 to 23 centimeters (7.1 to 9.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary.
    B/E—23 to 28 centimeters (9.1 to 11.0 inches); 90 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 10 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent fine faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt1—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 26 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) sand coats on vertical faces of peds and 50 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN197902
    Bt2—48 to 84 centimeters (18.9 to 33.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 26 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN197903
    BCg—84 to 94 centimeters (33.1 to 37.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine prominent black (7.5YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; gradual smooth boundary.
    Cg—94 to 122 centimeters (37.0 to 48.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) silt loam; massive; friable; 1 percent fine prominent black (5YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # MN197905