IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Littleswan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980MN137011 (3388)
  • User Pedon ID: S1980MN137011 (3388)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3388
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48777
  • User Project ID: BAUD_10-BEM19
  • Project Name: MLRA 88 - Glacial Lake Plain Baudette Catena
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 47.0774002
  • Std. Longitude: -92.7721329
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 53N
  • Range: 19W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4SW1/4NE1/4
  • 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-A7—Elmer, 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 - 28 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/19/2019
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth 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

    0—28

    28—56

    28—152

    —28—

    —28—

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    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

    —

    —

    —

    —

    270

    670

    —

    120

    4

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN338801; moist when described;
    E—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak coarse platy structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN338802; moist when described;
    Bt—28 to 56 centimeters (11.0 to 22.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, organic stains; 1 percent fine grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN338803; moist when described;
    BC—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 very fine roots; light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, organic stains; 11 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN338804; moist when described;
    C—66 to 152 centimeters (26.0 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) silt loam; weak medium platy structure; friable; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4. Lab sample # MN338805; moist when described;