IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Le Sueur
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980MN079020 (3359)
  • User Pedon ID: S1980MN079020 (3359)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3359
  • User Project ID: 2029-3
  • Project Name: MLRA 103 - Ice Contact and Moraine Investigation
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 44.2715302
  • Std. Longitude: -93.6819916
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 109N
  • Range: 24W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 1300 feet east and 900 feet north of southwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN079—Le Sueur
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ALB—Albert Lea, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN079—Le Sueur County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44093-C6—Cordova, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SCHULZETENBERG
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Le Sueur
  • PSC - 71 to 121 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/27/2015
  • Classifier - Myles Elsen
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Le Sueur
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/1980
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy till
  • Landform: ground moraine, till plain
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    F103XY025MN Loamy Upland Forests

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/27/1980 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—56

    71—137

    —56—

    —66—
    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

    2

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    225

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) clay loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN335901; moist when described;
    A—25 to 56 centimeters (9.8 to 22.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN335902; moist when described;
    E—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse platy structure; firm; 65 percent light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN335903; moist when described;
    Bt1—71 to 84 centimeters (28.0 to 33.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 1 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN335904; moist when described;
    Bt2—84 to 122 centimeters (33.1 to 48.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 11 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN335905; moist when described;
    Bt3—122 to 137 centimeters (48.0 to 53.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 33 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN335906; moist when described;
    C—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; friable; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN335907; moist when described;