IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Milaca
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983MN065015
  • User Pedon ID: S1983MN065015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3704
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48909
  • User Project ID: MLCU_10-DUL19
  • Project Name: MLRA 90A - Mille Lacs Uplands Coarse-Loamy Basal Till Investigation
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 45.9329300
  • Std. Longitude: -93.4795227
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 40N
  • Range: 25W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4NE1/4NE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN065—Kanabec
  • MLRA: 90A—Wisconsin and Minnesota Thin Loess and Till
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN065—Kanabec County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45093-H4—Ann Lake, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RB, KS, JG
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Oxyaquic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Milaca
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/19/2019
  • Classifier - B. Schug
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Milaca
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/14/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/14/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    redox concentrations

    densic contact

    0—30

    30—84

    48—84

    84—

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    270

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 15.0 medium roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-160-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN370401; moist when described;
    E—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent worm casts; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-160-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN370402; moist when described;
    Bt—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine platy parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots; dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), moist, clay films; 6 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN370403; moist when described;
    BC—48 to 84 centimeters (18.9 to 33.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; very firm; 0.1 fine roots; dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), moist, clay films; 11 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # MN370404; moist when described;
    Cd—84 to 152 centimeters (33.1 to 59.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; very firm; fragments. Lab sample # MN370405; moist when described;