IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mesaba
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN0752059
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN0752059
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2059
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50064
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 47.1408653
  • Std. Longitude: -91.4588394
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 54N
  • Range: 9W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN075—Lake
  • MLRA: 92—Superior Lake Plain
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-DUL—Duluth, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN075—Lake County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47091-B4—Split Rock Point, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lewis
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Dystric Eutrudepts
  • 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 - Mesaba
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2011
  • 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: silty eolian deposits
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: basalt at 61cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/27/2011 (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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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); black (5YR 2/1), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dry; gravelly silt loam; strong very fine granular structure; 30 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN205901
    Bw—8 to 61 centimeters (3.1 to 24.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) gravelly silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; 30 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # MN205902
    R—61 to 89 centimeters (24.0 to 35.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.