IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Giese
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992MN0014688
  • User Pedon ID: S1992MN0014688
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN4688
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50841
  • User Project ID: MLCU_10-DUL19
  • Project Name: MLRA 90A - Mille Lacs Uplands Coarse-Loamy Basal Till Investigation
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 46.3383026
  • Std. Longitude: -93.0544128
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 45N
  • Range: 22W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 1900 feet north and 50 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN001—Aitkin
  • MLRA: 90A—Wisconsin and Minnesota Thin Loess and Till
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN001—Aitkin County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46093-C1—Arthyde, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Roger Berggren, Paul Nyberg, Svode
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, nonacid, frigid Typic Humaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Giese
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/19/2019
  • Classifier - B. Schug
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Giese
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/15/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/15/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    aquic conditions

    sapric soil materials

    albic horizon

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    cambic horizon

    0—53

    0—109

    0—10

    25—53

    25—178

    25—109

    53—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

    0.5

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    180

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    Oa—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; muck; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN468801
    A—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) mucky loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN468802
    Eg1—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine sandy loam; moderate thick platy structure; very friable; 1 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent fine faint masses of reduced iron in matrix; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN468803
    Eg2—43 to 53 centimeters (16.9 to 20.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loamy fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3 percent fine faint brown (7.5YR 5/3) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent medium faint light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN468804
    Bw1—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 21 percent medium faint brown (7.5YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 21 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 4 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN468805
    Bw2—71 to 109 centimeters (28.0 to 42.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; firm; 3 percent medium distinct reddish gray (5YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 3 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 6 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN468806
    BCd—109 to 178 centimeters (42.9 to 70.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; moderate thin platy, and moderate medium platy structure; very firm; 1 percent fine faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 6 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN468807
    Cd—178 to 203 centimeters (70.1 to 79.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4); firm; 6 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # MN468808