IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Itasca
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976MN0612213
  • User Pedon ID: S1976MN0612213
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2213
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50136
  • 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: 47.2412720
  • Std. Longitude: -93.4295273
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 55N
  • Range: 24W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4SE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN061—Itasca
  • MLRA: 57—Northern Minnesota Gray Drift
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN061—Itasca County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47093-B4—La Prairie, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jerry Sharp, Castle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Haplic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Itasca
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2011
  • 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: silty eolian deposits over loamy till
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/1/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    3

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    O—0 to 0 centimeters (0.0 to 0.0 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    E—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light gray (10YR 7/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN221301
    Bw—8 to 36 centimeters (3.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak thin platy parts to weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN221302
    E'—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN221303
    2E/B—51 to 56 centimeters (20.1 to 22.0 inches); 70 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 9 percent by volume subrounded 5-?-30 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN221304
    2B/E—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); 80 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 20 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sandy loam; moderate very coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 6 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 9 percent by volume subrounded 3-?-15 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN221305
    2Bt—86 to 107 centimeters (33.9 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; weak coarse platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-10 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN221306. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 862291; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 862291
    2BC—107 to 135 centimeters (42.1 to 53.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak very coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 26 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-8 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN221307. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 862292; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 862292
    2C—135 to 178 centimeters (53.1 to 70.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; moderate very thick platy parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0. Lab sample # MN221308