IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Webster
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994MN161006
  • User Pedon ID: S1994MN161006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0695
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66868
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 44.0612717
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5391312
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN161—Waseca
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN161—Waseca County, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ken Matzdorf and Jim Thompson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Webster
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nicolet (lower)
  • Classificaton Date - 8/17/1994
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Surface Fragments: 0.50 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/17/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    0—51

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    Setting and Climate
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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P05207
    A—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) clay loam; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P05208
    AB—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); 80 percent black (10YR 2/1) and 20 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior and 20 percent brown (10YR 4/3) exterior clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky, and moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 4 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P05209. 10YR 2/1 color is in filled worm channels.
    Bt1—51 to 70 centimeters (20.1 to 27.6 inches); 80 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior and 80 percent brown (10YR 4/3) exterior and 20 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 1 percent distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) iron stains in root channels and/or pores; 3 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P05210. 20% 10YR 3/1 organic stains in tongues throughout the horizon.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 176894; patchy - phpvsfiid 176893; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 176894; patchy - phpvsfiid 176893
    Bt2—70 to 85 centimeters (27.6 to 33.5 inches); 50 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and 50 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 5 percent prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) iron stains on faces of peds and in pores; 4 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P05211. contains pockets and lenses of sandy material, lenses appear to be conducting water that flows into pit.; patchy - phpvsfiid 176895; continuous - phpvsfiid 176896; patchy - phpvsfiid 176895; continuous - phpvsfiid 176896
    Bkg1—85 to 107 centimeters (33.5 to 42.1 inches); 75 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and 25 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic, and weak fine angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 6 percent distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) iron stains on faces of peds and in pores; 2 percent fine threadlike white (10YR 8/1) carbonate threads between peds and 2 percent fine and medium spherical white (10YR 8/1) carbonate nodules throughout and 1 percent fine and medium irregular black (10YR 2/1) between peds; 3 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P05212. effervescence occurs on threads.; patchy - phpvsfiid 176897; patchy - phpvsfiid 176897
    Bkg2—107 to 140 centimeters (42.1 to 55.1 inches); 75 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior and 25 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and 75 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1) exterior clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 4 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) iron stains in root channels and/or pores; 7 percent fine and medium irregular black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses between peds; 5 percent medium and coarse irregular white (10YR 8/1) carbonate nodules throughout; 2 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P05213. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 176898; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 176898
    Bk—140 to 175 centimeters (55.1 to 68.9 inches); 60 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and 40 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) clay loam; massive; friable; 5 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) iron stains on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent fine irregular black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses between peds; 1 percent fine spherical 2.5Y 8/ (2.5Y 8/) carbonate concretions between peds; 1 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 94P05214. Sample 94P5215.; patchy - phpvsfiid 176899; patchy - phpvsfiid 176899