IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Menahga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN0612547
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN0612547
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2547
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50718
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 47.3399010
  • Std. Longitude: -93.6353073
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 56N
  • Range: 26W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 50 feet south and 1175 feet east of the northwest corner
  • 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-C6—Cohasset West, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, frigid Typic Udipsamments
  • 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 - Menahga
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Menahga
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/3/2011
  • 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: sandy outwash
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/3/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and 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

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); 90 percent black (10YR 2/1) and 10 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loamy sand; weak medium granular, and weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN254701
    E—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and brown (7.5YR 4/2) loamy sand; weak medium granular structure; very friable; fragments.
    Bw1—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # MN254702
    Bw2—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) coarse sand; single grain; loose; fragments. Lab sample # MN254703
    BC—51 to 97 centimeters (20.1 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) coarse sand; single grain; loose; 8 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # MN254704
    C1—97 to 168 centimeters (38.2 to 66.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sand; single grain; loose; fragments. Lab sample # MN254705
    C2—168 to 185 centimeters (66.1 to 72.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) sand; single grain; loose; fragments. Lab sample # MN254706