IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nebish
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN145025 (2271)
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN145025 (2271)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2271
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47709
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 45.6588898
  • Std. Longitude: -94.5347137
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 125N
  • Range: 31W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 120 feet north and 800 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN145—Stearns
  • 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: MN145—Stearns County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45094-F5—Albany, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Charles Saari
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nebish
  • PSC - 23 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nebish
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/19/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gray till
  • Landform: moraine on till plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/19/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - barren land
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other barren
  • 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

    9

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN227101; moist when described;
    E—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; sandy loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN227102; moist when described;
    Bt1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN227103; moist when described;
    Bt2—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 65 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN227104; moist when described;
    BC—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse platy structure; friable; 5 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 65 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN227105; moist when described;
    C1—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) loam; moderate fine platy parts to moderate coarse platy structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN227106; moist when described;
    C2—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; moderate coarse platy structure; firm; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4. Lab sample # MN227107; moist when described;