IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Quetico
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: F80MN137027
  • User Pedon ID: S1980MN137027 (3395)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3395
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48782
  • 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: 47.5744400
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5379791
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 59N
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet east and 300 feet south of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: F21F—Quetico, stony-Rock outcrop complex, 35 to 60 percent slopes
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN137—St. Louis
  • MLRA: 93—Superior Stony and Rocky Loamy Plains and Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN621—St. Louis County, Minnesota, Virginia Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47092-E5—Virginia, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kim Gordenier
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, isotic, acid, frigid Lithic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Quetico
  • PSC - 3 to 15 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Quetico
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/7/1980
  • 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 solid rock
  • Landform: bedrock-controlled ridge
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Bedrock: indurated granite at 15cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/7/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 378NE
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • 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

    30

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    524

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    90

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    O—0 to 0 centimeters (0.0 to 0.0 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described;
    Bw—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) gravelly silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-160-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN339502; moist when described;
    R—15 centimeters (5.9 inches); fragments.