IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Meehan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979MN137038 (3125)
  • User Pedon ID: S1979MN137038 (3125)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3125
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48655
  • Print Date: 1/10/2025

    • 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: 47.3495903
  • Std. Longitude: -92.8945770
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 56N
  • Range: 20W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4NW1/4
  • 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: MN619—St. Louis County, Minnesota, Meadowlands Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47092-C8—Riley, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tim Richardson, Jacobson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, frigid Oxyaquic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Meehan
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Meehan
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • Classificaton Date - 8/6/1979
  • 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: brown outwash
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/6/1979 (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
    • 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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    O—0 to 0 centimeters (0.0 to 0.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # MN312501
    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    E—3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium platy structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Bw1—5 to 30 centimeters (2.0 to 11.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN312502; moist when described;
    Bw2—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) sand; loose; 0.1 very fine roots; 11 percent red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN312503; moist when described;
    Bw3—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine sand; loose; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN312504; moist when described;
    BC—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) coarse sand; loose; 11 percent red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of reduced iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN312505; moist when described;
    C—81 to 152 centimeters (31.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sand; loose; 11 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # MN312506; moist when described;