IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alango
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN0612748
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN0612748
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2748
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47861
  • User Project ID: AGLP_10-BEM22
  • Project Name: MLRA 88 - Agassiz Lake Plain Effie Till and Clayey Lacustrine Catenas
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 47.7603302
  • Std. Longitude: -93.8205032
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 149N
  • Range: 25W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 75 feet south and 550 feet west of the northeast corner
  • 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-G7—Wildwood SE, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • 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 - Alango
  • PSC - 18 to 53 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 - 9/6/1978
  • 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: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/6/1978 (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—13

    3—13

    13—152

    18—53

    46—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 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN274801; moist when described;
    E—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; moderate fine platy parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN274803; moist when described;
    BE—13 to 18 centimeters (5.1 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described;
    Btg1—18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 65 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # MN274804; moist when described;
    Btg2—46 to 53 centimeters (18.1 to 20.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN274805; moist when described;
    Cg1—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky parts to moderate coarse platy structure; friable; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN274806; moist when described;
    Cg2—79 to 152 centimeters (31.1 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay; moderate fine angular blocky parts to weak coarse platy structure; firm; 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN274807; moist when described;