IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Festina
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976MN0552335
  • User Pedon ID: S1976MN0552335
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2335
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47733
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 43.6041679
  • Std. Longitude: -91.3786621
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 102N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4SW1/4SE1/4
  • 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43091-E4—Eitzen, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Festina
  • PSC - 46 to 96 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Jackson
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 46 to 96 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1976
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • 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: lacustrine deposits
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    albic horizon

    redox concentrations

    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

    2

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    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
    A1—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN233501; moist when described;
    A2—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium platy structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN233502; moist when described;
    E—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium platy structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN233503; moist when described;
    Bt1—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN233504; moist when described;
    Bt2—61 to 86 centimeters (24.0 to 33.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN233505; moist when described;
    Bt3—86 to 107 centimeters (33.9 to 42.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to strong coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN233506; moist when described;
    BC—107 to 145 centimeters (42.1 to 57.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse prismatic structure; friable; 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN233507; moist when described;
    C—145 to 208 centimeters (57.1 to 81.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent brown (7.5YR 5/3), moist, masses of reduced iron and 11 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # MN233508; moist when described;