IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Milaca
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1996MN065034
  • User Pedon ID: S1996MN065034
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0263
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68738
  • User Project ID: MLCU_10-DUL19
  • Project Name: MLRA 90A - Mille Lacs Uplands Coarse-Loamy Basal Till Investigation
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 45.9505539
  • Std. Longitude: -93.4927750
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 40 N.
  • Range: 25 W.
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 50 feet north and 800 feet east of the SW corner
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN065—Kanabec
  • MLRA: 90A—Wisconsin and Minnesota Thin Loess and Till
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN065—Kanabec County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45093-H4—Ann Lake, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: KAC, MLP, ALV
  • 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: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • 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 - Mora
  • PSC - 30 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/25/1996
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over coarse-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: knoll
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/25/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 18D
  • 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

    albic horizon

    glossic horizon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    aquic conditions

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    densic contact

    0—30

    15—30

    30—48

    30—99

    30—99

    74—99

    74—99

    99—

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    —-

    —-

    —-

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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

    4

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    —

    —

    —

    45

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    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described;
    E—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; weak thin platy structure; friable; 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; dry when described;
    B/E—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); 75 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 25 percent brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium platy structure; friable; medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; dry when described;. Horizon was desscribed as having few redoximorphic concentrations; no percentage given.
    2Bt1—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) clay films on faces of peds; medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 12 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; dry when described;. Horizon was desscribed as having few redoximorphic concentrations; no percentage given.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 104278; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 104278
    2Bt2—74 to 99 centimeters (29.1 to 39.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; firm; distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) clay films on bottoms of plates; medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on surfaces along root channels and medium faint brown (7.5YR 5/3), moist, iron depletions on surfaces along root channels; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 8 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described;. Redoximorphic features in 2Bt2 seem to follow root channels only.; Horizon was desscribed as having few redoximorphic concentrations and depletions; no percentage given.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 104279; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 104279
    2BCd—99 to 132 centimeters (39.0 to 52.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate medium platy, and moderate coarse platy structure; very firm; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 8 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described;
    2Cd—132 to 203 centimeters (52.0 to 79.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; moderate coarse platy, and moderate medium platy structure; very firm; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog.; moist when described;