IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Keewatin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN0611982
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN0611982
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1982
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50062
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 47.4451103
  • Std. Longitude: -93.1953735
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 57N
  • Range: 22W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4NW1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN061—Itasca
  • MLRA: 57—Northern Minnesota Gray Drift
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN061—Itasca County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47093-D2—Nashwauk, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JAS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aquic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Keewatin
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Keewatin
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/24/2011
  • 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: loamy till
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/24/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

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    O—0 to 0 centimeters (0.0 to 0.0 inches); fragments.
    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) very fine sandy loam; moderate very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN198201
    Eg—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) very fine sandy loam; weak medium platy, and weak thick platy structure; friable; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent medium faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN198202
    B/E—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MN198203
    Bt1—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky, and strong coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 26 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN198204
    Bt2—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN198205
    C—102 to 122 centimeters (40.2 to 48.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; massive; fragments. Lab sample # MN198206