IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Northcote
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979MN167008 (3170)
  • User Pedon ID: S1979MN167008 (3170)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3170
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48674
  • 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: 46.4137306
  • Std. Longitude: -96.6342468
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 134N
  • Range: 47W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 170 feet north and 80 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN167—Wilkin
  • MLRA: 56—Red River Valley of the North
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FAR—Fargo, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN167—Wilkin County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46096-D6—Abercrombie, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jon Hall, Gordon
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Epiaquerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Northcote
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Northcote
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/3/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey lacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: glacial lake plain
  • Landform: flat
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/3/1979 (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
    • 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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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (N 3/),, dry; clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; extremely firm; 0.1 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN317001; moist when described;
    Bg1—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1), dark gray (5Y 4/1), dry; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.1 fine roots; 30 percent very dark gray (5Y 3/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN317002; moist when described;
    Bg2—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2), dark gray (5Y 4/1), dry; clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots; 30 percent dark olive gray (5Y 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN317003; moist when described;
    Bkg—51 to 94 centimeters (20.1 to 37.0 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1), gray (5Y 5/1), dry; clay; moderate very fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots; 30 percent dark olive gray (5Y 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN317004; moist when described;
    Cg—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), dry; clay; weak fine angular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent dark olive gray (5Y 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 11 percent fine olive (5Y 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # MN317005; moist when described;