IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Indus
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976MN0612219
  • User Pedon ID: S1976MN0612219
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2219
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50139
  • User Project ID: AGLP_10-BEM22
  • Project Name: MLRA 88 - Agassiz Lake Plain Effie Till and Clayey Lacustrine Catenas
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 47.8120689
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5784836
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 62N
  • Range: 25W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4SE1/4SE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN061—Itasca
  • MLRA: 88—Northern Minnesota Glacial Lake Basins
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-BEM—Bemidji, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN061—Itasca County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47093-G5—Effie SE, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, frigid Vertic Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Indus
  • Classificaton Date - 5/16/2022
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Indus
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/2/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey glaciolacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: flat
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: dip
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/2/2011 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    aquic conditions

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—15

    8—15

    8—157

    15—46

    46—157

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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

    0.5

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    —

    —

    —

    225

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    —

    —

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); silty clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN221902
    Eg—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; hard, firm; 21 percent fine prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent fine prominent black (5YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN221903
    B/E—15 to 18 centimeters (5.9 to 7.1 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) and dark gray (5Y 4/1) silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN221901
    Btg1—18 to 23 centimeters (7.1 to 9.1 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) clay; strong fine angular blocky, and moderate medium structure; firm; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN221904
    Btg2—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) clay; weak coarse prismatic, and strong fine angular blocky, and strong very fine angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN221905
    BCg—46 to 74 centimeters (18.1 to 29.1 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) clay; weak coarse angular blocky, and weak very coarse prismatic structure; firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN221906
    Cg1—74 to 137 centimeters (29.1 to 53.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) clay; massive; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN221907
    Cg2—137 to 157 centimeters (53.9 to 61.8 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) clay; massive; friable; 1 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MN221908