IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Council
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976MN055044
  • User Pedon ID: S1976MN055044
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL2
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2366
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82839
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 43.7672496
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5809722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 103N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4SW1/4SE1/4
  • Location Description: North of Root River, North of Houston
  • 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 - 25 to 75 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 - 25 to 75 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: slope alluvium
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • 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

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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

    30

    —

    —

    —

    —

    293

    899

    —

    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; loamy sand, sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500351
    AB—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loamy sand, sandy loam; weak fine prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500352
    Bt1—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500353
    Bt2—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) loam; 19 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500354
    Bt3—66 to 89 centimeters (26.0 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 50-?-100 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500355
    BC—89 to 114 centimeters (35.0 to 44.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and very pale brown (10YR 8/2), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; loam; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; organic stains; manganese masses; 50-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # MN500356. 7.5YR5/6 sandstone, 10YR8/2 sand (small patches)
    C—114 to 115 centimeters (44.9 to 45.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; very fine sandy loam, very fine sand; chert fragments observed by visual inspection method and dolomite (dolostone) fragments observed by visual inspection method. cc reaction; weak vfsl to fsl