IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marquette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990MN029815 (4471)
  • User Pedon ID: S1990MN029815 (4471)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN4471
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48936
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 47.5615997
  • Std. Longitude: -95.3426208
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 147N
  • Range: 37W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet north and 300 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN029—Clearwater
  • MLRA: 57—Northern Minnesota Gray Drift
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN029—Clearwater County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47095-E3—Shevlin, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Larson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Inceptic Hapludalfs
  • 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 - Marquette
  • PSC - 0 to 0 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Marquette
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/15/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy and gravelly glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: beach ridge
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/15/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in cut
    E—5 to 41 centimeters (2.0 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sand; loose; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in cut
    Bt—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) very gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films; 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN447103; dry when described; observed in cut
    C—66 to 152 centimeters (26.0 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) very gravelly coarse sand; loose; 60 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence.; dry when described; observed in cut