IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Milaca
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983MN097026
  • User Pedon ID: S1983MN097026
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3701
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48910
  • User Project ID: MLCU_10-DUL19
  • Project Name: MLRA 90A - Mille Lacs Uplands Coarse-Loamy Basal Till Investigation
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 45.9458351
  • Std. Longitude: -94.0727768
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 40 N
  • Range: 30 W
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 1,800 feet north and 100 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: about 1 mile south and 2 miles east of Genola
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN097—Morrison
  • MLRA: 90B—Central Wisconsin Thin Loess Dissected Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN097—Morrison County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45094-H1—Pierz, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jerry Gorton, Kim Steffen, Roger Berggren
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Milaca
  • PSC - 38 to 58 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 - Flak
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy till
  • Landform: drumlin, moraine, till plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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—38

    38—58

    58—109

    109—

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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

    5

    —

    —

    323

    —

    724

    —

    120

    5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots throughout; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt smooth boundary.
    E—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; weak thin platy structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 fine roots throughout; 26 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 6 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual wavy boundary.
    BC—58 to 109 centimeters (22.8 to 42.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; firm; 1 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds; 12 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual wavy boundary.
    Cd—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; massive, and moderate medium platy; very firm; 9 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3.