IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hibbing
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979MN137027 (2995)
  • User Pedon ID: S1979MN137027 (2995)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2995
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48647
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 47.5237999
  • Std. Longitude: -92.2501984
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 58N
  • Range: 15W
  • Section: 9
  • Location Description: 1/4 MI. S of INT 135 and CO. 110
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN137—St. Louis
  • MLRA: 93A—Superior and Rainy Stony and Rocky Till Plains and Moraines
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-DUL—Duluth, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN617—St. Louis County, Minnesota, Embarrass Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47092-E3—Biwabik, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tim Richardson, Brant Heikel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, frigid Oxyaquic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hibbing
  • PSC - 30 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/25/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hibbing
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: red till
  • Landform: rise
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/24/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - barren land
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other barren
  • 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
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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    E/B—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Bt1—30 to 64 centimeters (11.8 to 25.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN299503; moist when described;
    Bt2—64 to 97 centimeters (25.2 to 38.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN299503; moist when described;
    BC—97 to 112 centimeters (38.2 to 44.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots; 5 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    C—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium platy structure; firm; fragments.; moist when described;