IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shullsburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976MN0552389
  • User Pedon ID: S1976MN0552389
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2389
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47736
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024
  • 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: 43.5269012
  • Std. Longitude: -91.6310196
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 101N
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet south and 20 feet west of the northeast corner
  • 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-E6—Spring Grove, Minnesota
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty over clayey, mixed over smectitic, superactive, mesic Aquic 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 - Shullsburg
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shullsburg
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1976
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • 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
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    aquic conditions

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    paralithic contact

    paralithic materials

    redox concentrations

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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

    4

    90

    899

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    0009

    LA CRESCENT 0.7 N, MN US

    NOAA

    A1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; moderate fine granular parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN238901; moist when described;
    A2—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium prismatic structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN238902; moist when described;
    A3—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium prismatic structure; friable; 1 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN238903; moist when described;
    Bt1—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # MN238904; moist when described;
    2Bt2—66 to 109 centimeters (26.0 to 42.9 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) clay; strong fine subangular blocky parts to strong medium prismatic structure; very firm; 33 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN238905; moist when described;
    Cr—109 to 127 centimeters (42.9 to 50.0 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) bedrock; fragments.