IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Milaca
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983MN097027
  • User Pedon ID: S1983MN097027
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3702
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48911
  • User Project ID: MLCU_10-DUL19
  • Project Name: MLRA 90A - Mille Lacs Uplands Coarse-Loamy Basal Till Investigation
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 45.9230499
  • Std. Longitude: -94.0714035
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 40N
  • Range: 30W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet south and 450 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN097—Morrison
  • MLRA: 90B—Central Wisconsin Thin Loess Dissected Till Plain
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • 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 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 - Flak
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/26/1983
  • 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: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/26/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    redox concentrations

    aquic conditions

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    densic contact

    0—33

    33—58

    58—102

    58—102

    58—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

    5

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    315

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; fine sandy loam; weak fine granular parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15.0 medium roots; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-160-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN370201; moist when described;
    E—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-160-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN370202; moist when described;
    Bt1—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium platy structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 5 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN370203; moist when described;
    Bt2—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 65 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 12 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN370204; moist when described;
    BCd—58 to 102 centimeters (22.8 to 40.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; very firm; 65 percent brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent brown (7.5YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 12 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN370205; moist when described;
    Cd—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; firm; 12 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # MN370206; moist when described;