IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Millward
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: wet
  • User Site ID: S1983MN095014
  • User Pedon ID: S1983MN095014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3703
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48908
  • User Project ID: MLCU_10-DUL19
  • Project Name: MLRA 90A - Mille Lacs Uplands Coarse-Loamy Basal Till 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: 45.7713699
  • Std. Longitude: -93.6943359
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 38N
  • Range: 27W
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 2630 feet north and 1330 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN095—Mille Lacs
  • MLRA: 90A—Wisconsin and Minnesota Thin Loess and Till
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN095—Mille Lacs County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45093-G6—Milaca, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jerry Gorton, Kim Steffen, Roger Berggren
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aquic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Millward
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/19/2019
  • Classifier - B. Schug
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • 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: drumlin
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • 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

    glossic horizon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    aquic conditions

    densic contact

    0—28

    13—28

    28—102

    36—102

    51—102

    51—102

    102—

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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

    4

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    —

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 15.0 medium roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-36-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-160-250 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN370301; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; very friable; 5.0 medium roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-36-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-160-250 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN370302; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    B/E—28 to 36 centimeters (11.0 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine platy structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-36-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN370303; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) loam; weak fine platy parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 65 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN370304; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2BC—51 to 102 centimeters (20.1 to 40.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) loamy sand; moderate medium platy structure; very firm; 0.1 fine roots; 5 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, clay films; 1 percent reddish gray (5YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN370305; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    3BCd—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; very firm; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # MN370306; moist when described; observed in pit, small