IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Minneiska
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976MN055051
  • User Pedon ID: S1976MN055051
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL2
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2376
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82847
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025
  • 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: 43.6879845
  • Std. Longitude: -91.6040012
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 103N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 20 feet south and 1800 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: east of Houston; Money Creek
  • 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, calcareous, mesic Mollic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC6.0B
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Minneiska
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/2/2013
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Minneiska
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Mollic Udifluvents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 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: alluvium
  • 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: 12/2/2013 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

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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

    899

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    0009

    LA CRESCENT 0.7 N, MN US

    NOAA

    A1—0 to 51 centimeters (0.0 to 20.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) loam; 9 percent clay; weak very fine platy parts to weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; few fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500370. high in f and vf sand; moderately calcareous with HCL
    AC—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) loamy sand; 5 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500371
    C1—64 to 76 centimeters (25.2 to 29.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) sand; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500372
    C2—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) sand; structureless single grain; loose; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MN500373