IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Westoo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979MN137071 (3123)
  • User Pedon ID: S1979MN137071 (3123)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3123
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48668
  • 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: 47.3418808
  • Std. Longitude: -92.8514786
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 56N
  • Range: 20W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4SW1/4SW1/4
  • 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-C7—Little Swan, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jacobson, Thomas
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Isotic, frigid Oxyaquic Udipsamments
  • 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 - Westoo
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hiwood
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/9/1979
  • 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
  • Landform: beach ridge
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/9/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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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    E1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loamy fine sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN312301; moist when described;
    E2—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) fine sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN312302; moist when described;
    Bw1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN312303; moist when described;
    Bw2—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN312304; moist when described;
    Bw3—48 to 61 centimeters (18.9 to 24.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN312305; moist when described;
    BC—61 to 107 centimeters (24.0 to 42.1 inches); 10YR 5/ (10YR 5/), fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 33 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN312306; wet when described;
    C—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine sand; loose; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # MN312307; wet when described;