IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Council
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976MN055042
  • User Pedon ID: S1976MN055042
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL2
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2362
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82837
  • 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: 43.7673573
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5812011
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 103N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4SE1/4SE1/4
  • Location Description: North of Root River just off Hwy 76; pasture with birch just above
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN055—Houston
  • 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: MN055—Houston County, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC6.0B
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Council
  • PSC - 46 to 96 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/2/2013
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Council
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 46 to 96 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/2/2013
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • 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 residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: sandstone, unspecified
  • Geology: St. Lawrence formation of the Trempealeau group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/20/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Air Photo ID: E-6
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    albic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

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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

    35

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    —

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    0

    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    0009

    LA CRESCENT 0.7 N, MN US

    NOAA
    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500345
    E—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500346
    EB—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) very fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500347
    Bt1—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; 19 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500348
    Bt2—76 to 109 centimeters (29.9 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; 19 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500349
    BC—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) very fine sandy loam; light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine distinct and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky; sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # MN500350. some ss fragments at hottom of horizon. Rubble below this.