IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Northcote
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005MN069052
  • User Pedon ID: S2005MN069052
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0416
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18459
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024
  • 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: 48.6153056
  • Std. Longitude: -96.6047500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 159N
  • Range: 46W
  • Section: 9
  • Location Description: Deerwood Township
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN069—Kittson
  • MLRA: 56—Red River Valley of the North
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lynn DesLauriers-Casey Shroeder
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Epiaquerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 53
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Northcote
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/29/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Northcote
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Epiaquerts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/4/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy glaciolacustrine deposits over loamy glaciolacustrine deposits
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R056AY096ND Subirrigated Sands
  • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/4/2005 (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
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 7
  • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—22

    —-

    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    10/4/2005

    50

    11

    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

    2

    305

    457

    125

    5

    Ap—0 to 22 centimeters (0.0 to 8.7 inches); black (N 2/0), very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1), dry; clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bg—22 to 50 centimeters (8.7 to 19.7 inches); 80 percent dark gray (5Y 4/1) and 20 percent very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) clay; strong very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bssg1—50 to 84 centimeters (19.7 to 33.1 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) clay; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; distinct slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bssg2—84 to 122 centimeters (33.1 to 48.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) clay; weak very coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine faint olive (5Y 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    BCssg—122 to 145 centimeters (48.0 to 57.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) clay; massive; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 2 percent medium prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings between peds and 5 percent medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    Cg—145 to 250 centimeters (57.1 to 98.4 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) clay; massive; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2 percent medium distinct olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 2 percent medium prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings between peds; 1 percent fine prominent white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses on faces of peds and 2 percent fine prominent white (10YR 8/1), moist, gypsum masses on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; moist when described; observed in trench