IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Skyberg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN1091965
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN1091965
  • User Site Association ID: Skyberg_Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1965
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47702
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 43.9439888
  • Std. Longitude: -92.2476730
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 106N
  • Range: 12W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 980 feet north and 300 feet east of the southwest corner of NE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN109—Olmsted
  • 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: MN109—Olmsted County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43092-H2—Eyota, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: George Poch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Skyberg
  • PSC - 38 to 89 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Skyberg
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Epiaqualfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/15/1975
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • 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: loess over till
  • Landform: flat
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/15/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    albic horizon

    redox concentrations

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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

    0.5

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    90

    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00014925

    ROCHESTER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, MN US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN196501; moist when described;
    E1—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; moderate very fine platy structure; very friable; 11 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN196502; moist when described;
    E2—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; very friable; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN196503; moist when described;
    Bt1—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN196504; moist when described;
    Bt2—51 to 61 centimeters (20.1 to 24.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN196505; moist when described;
    2BC1—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 4 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN196506; moist when described;
    2BC2—76 to 114 centimeters (29.9 to 44.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described;
    2C—114 to 165 centimeters (44.9 to 65.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified. Lab sample # MN196507; moist when described;