IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cloquet
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979MN1373212
  • User Pedon ID: S1979MN1373212
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL2
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3212
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82891
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025
  • 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: 47.0059166
  • Std. Longitude: -92.0139389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 52N
  • Range: 13W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 1650 feet south and 2000 feet west of the northeast corner
  • 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: MN137—St. Louis County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47092-A1—Thompson Lake, Minnesota
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jerry Sharp
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, frigid
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: U of MN lab data only
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cloquet
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, frigid
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/10/1979
  • 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: loess over outwash
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/10/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    4

    436

    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very gravelly coarse sandy loam; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter. Lab sample # MN321201
    Bw1—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); very gravelly loam; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter. Lab sample # MN321202
    Bw2—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, pH meter. Lab sample # MN321203