IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Littleswan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980MN137008 (3389)
  • User Pedon ID: S1980MN137008 (3389)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3389
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48776
  • User Project ID: BAUD_10-BEM19
  • Project Name: MLRA 88 - Glacial Lake Plain Baudette Catena
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 47.0976601
  • Std. Longitude: -92.7368622
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 53N
  • Range: 19W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4NE1/4NW1/4
  • 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-A6—Meadowlands, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Timothy N. Richardson, Jerry Sharp
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Littleswan
  • PSC - 14 to 39 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Baudette
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/18/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty glaciolacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: flat
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 88

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/18/1980 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    secondary carbonates

    0—14

    14—39

    30—152

    39—152

    —14—

    —25—

    —-

    —113—
    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

    —

    —

    387

    —

    270

    670

    —

    120

    4

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    O—0 to 0 centimeters (0.0 to 0.0 inches); highly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    E1—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3. Lab sample # MN338902; moist when described;
    E2—9 to 14 centimeters (3.5 to 5.5 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; moderate fine platy structure; friable; 0.1 very fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3. Lab sample # MN338903; moist when described;
    Bt1—14 to 30 centimeters (5.5 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 very fine roots; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8. Lab sample # MN338904; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 740476; continuous - phpvsfiid 740476
    Bt2—30 to 39 centimeters (11.8 to 15.4 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries throughout and 11 percent distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron with diffuse boundaries throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3. Lab sample # MN338905; moist when described;
    Bk1—39 to 68 centimeters (15.4 to 26.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; weak thin platy structure; friable; 1 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron with diffuse boundaries throughout and 1 percent distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries throughout; 3 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries on vertical faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6. Lab sample # MN338906; moist when described;
    Bk2—68 to 152 centimeters (26.8 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate thin platy structure; friable; 10 percent distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries throughout and 11 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron with diffuse boundaries throughout; 1 percent distinct irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries on surfaces along root channels; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7. Lab sample # MN338907; moist when described;