IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Taylor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN137015 (2566)
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN137015 (2566)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2566
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48507
  • User Project ID: AGLP_10-BEM22
  • Project Name: MLRA 88 - Agassiz Lake Plain Effie Till and Clayey Lacustrine Catenas
  • 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: 47.7485313
  • Std. Longitude: -92.8257828
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 61N
  • Range: 20W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet north and 200 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN137—St. Louis
  • 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: MN621—St. Louis County, Minnesota, Virginia Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47092-F7—Dark Lake, Minnesota
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tim Richardson, Jacobson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, frigid Aquertic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Taylor
  • PSC - 18 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/16/2022
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Taylor
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/22/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • 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: rise
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/22/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    secondary carbonates

    0—18

    18—53

    18—152

    53—152

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    5

    0

    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN256601; moist when described;
    Bt1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay; moderate fine angular blocky parts to moderate fine platy structure; friable; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 1 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN256602; moist when described;
    Bt2—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine platy structure; friable; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN256603; moist when described;
    C—53 to 152 centimeters (20.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay; weak fine platy structure; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6. Lab sample # MN256604; moist when described;