IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Northcote
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005MN069050
  • User Pedon ID: S2005MN069050
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0413
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18456
  • 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: 48.9745278
  • Std. Longitude: -97.0661944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 163N
  • Range: 50W
  • Section: 1
  • Location Description: St. Vincent TWP
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN069—Kittson
  • MLRA: 56—Red River Valley of the North
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN069—Kittson County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48097-H1—Humboldt, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David Potts-Casey Shroeder
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Epiaquerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 50
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Northcote
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/29/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Northcote
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Epiaquerts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/3/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey lacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: glacial lake plain
  • Landform: flat
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: occasional ponding for brief periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/3/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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—18

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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

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 2.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; observed in trench
    Bkg1—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); 75 percent olive gray (5Y 4/2) and 25 percent very dark gray (5Y 3/1) clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent fine prominent irregular white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; observed in trench
    Bkg2—38 to 68 centimeters (15.0 to 26.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) clay; weak very coarse, and extremely coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine roots; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in trench
    BCg—69 to 109 centimeters (27.2 to 42.9 inches); 80 percent olive gray (5Y 4/2) and 20 percent dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) clay; weak very coarse, and extremely coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine prominent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    Cg1—109 to 159 centimeters (42.9 to 62.6 inches); 60 percent olive gray (5Y 4/2) and 40 percent dark gray (5Y 4/1) clay; massive; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; olive gray (5Y 5/2), moist, silt coats; 2 percent medium prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings on horizontal faces of peds and 5 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; 1 percent medium prominent irregular white (10YR 8/1), moist, gypsum masses on horizontal faces of peds and 1 percent medium prominent irregular white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in trench
    Cg2—159 to 208 centimeters (62.6 to 81.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) clay; massive; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; olive gray (5Y 5/2), moist, silt coats; 5 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent medium prominent irregular white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses on horizontal faces of peds and 1 percent medium prominent irregular white (10YR 8/1), moist, gypsum masses on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in trench