IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Indus
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977MN0612458
  • User Pedon ID: S1977MN0612458
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2458
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47781
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 47.3183289
  • Std. Longitude: -93.6644440
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 56N
  • Range: 26W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4NE1/4
  • 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-C6—Cohasset West, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: PRCN
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Chromic Vertic Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Indus
  • PSC - 250 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/16/2022
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brickton
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey glaciolacustrine deposits
  • Landform: flat
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/15/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • 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—25

    10—25

    10—152

    25—48

    48—152

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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

    1

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    —

    —

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    225

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN245801; moist when described;
    E—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable; 1 percent fine light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN245802; moist when described;
    Btg—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 65 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN245803; moist when described;
    Cg1—48 to 104 centimeters (18.9 to 40.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN245804; moist when described;
    Cg2—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; firm; 11 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN245805; moist when described;