IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Littleton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN1092030
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN1092030
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2030
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50086
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 43.9517517
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5753632
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 106N
  • Range: 15W
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet north and 700 feet east of the southwest corner
  • 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-H5—Salem Corners, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Littleton
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/26/2011
  • 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 loess
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/26/2011 (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); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN203001
    A1—20 to 64 centimeters (7.9 to 25.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN203002
    A2—64 to 81 centimeters (25.2 to 31.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN203003
    A3—81 to 104 centimeters (31.9 to 40.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN203004
    Bw—104 to 130 centimeters (40.9 to 51.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 21 percent medium faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5. Lab sample # MN203005
    Cg1—130 to 155 centimeters (51.2 to 61.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent coarse distinct light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # MN203006
    Cg2—155 to 180 centimeters (61.0 to 70.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; massive; friable; 21 percent coarse distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # MN203007