IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Skyberg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN1091969
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN1091969
  • User Site Association ID: Skyberg_Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1969
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47703
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 43.8398323
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5678635
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 104N
  • Range: 14W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet south and 460 feet east of the northwest corner of SW1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN109—Olmsted
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN109—Olmsted County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43092-G5—High Forest, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: George Poch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aeric Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Skyberg
  • PSC - 20 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Skyberg
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • 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 Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/10/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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
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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN196901; moist when described;
    Btg1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN196902; moist when described;
    Btg2—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 11 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN196903; moist when described;
    2Btg3—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 33 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN196904; moist when described;
    2Btg4—64 to 81 centimeters (25.2 to 31.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 33 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN196905; moist when described;
    2BC—81 to 127 centimeters (31.9 to 50.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN196906; moist when described;
    3C—127 to 165 centimeters (50.0 to 65.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay loam; firm; 11 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0. Lab sample # MN196907; moist when described;