IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Meadowlands
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005MN137512
  • User Pedon ID: S2005MN137512
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005MN137512
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7630
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55324
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 47.0549933
  • Std. Longitude: -92.7277054
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 53N
  • Range: 19W
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 100' north and 1,300 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: In deep eroded ditch which was most likely a small ravene before it was eroded and had a deep soil profile exposed. This cut is in a 23-7Ac unit.
  • Map Unit: B86A—Meadowlands-Leeora-Alborn complex, clayey substratum, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN137—St. Louis
  • MLRA: 88—Northern Minnesota Glacial Lake Basins
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN137—St. Louis County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47092-A6—Meadowlands, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LAS, RTR, CAJ, LM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Typic Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Meadowlands
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Typic Endoaquepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/21/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lacustrine deposits over silty lacustrine deposits over clayey lacustrine deposits
  • Landform: lake plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/21/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 537SW
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion gully
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ALNUS

    POTR5

    Alnus

    Populus tremuloides

    alder

    quaking aspen

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    cambic horizon

    13—51

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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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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; 30.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter, saturated paste. Lab sample # 12N01061; moist when described; observed in cut
    B/A—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); 70 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and 30 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 3.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 30 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter, saturated paste. Lab sample # 12N01062; moist when described; observed in cut
    Bg—13 to 51 centimeters (5.1 to 20.1 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 3.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 30 percent fine and medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist,; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter, saturated paste. Lab sample # 12N01063; moist when described; observed in cut
    BCg—51 to 152 centimeters (20.1 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) stratified stratified very fine sandy loam to silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 10 percent prominent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, and 30 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist,; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, pH meter, saturated paste. Lab sample # 12N01064; moist when described; observed in cut
    Cg1—152 to 170 centimeters (59.8 to 66.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) stratified stratified silt loam to silty clay loam; massive; 30 percent medium prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, throughout and 30 percent medium prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist, throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter, saturated paste. Lab sample # 12N01065; moist when described; observed in cut
    C—170 to 215 centimeters (66.9 to 84.6 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) stratified stratified silt loam to silty clay loam; massive; 10 percent medium distinct light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, and 30 percent fine distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist,; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter, saturated paste. Lab sample # 12N01066; moist when described; observed in cut
    Cg2—215 to 226 centimeters (84.6 to 89.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay; massive; 1 percent medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, and 10 percent medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist,; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, pH meter, saturated paste. Lab sample # 12N01067; moist when described; observed in cut
    Cg3—226 to 239 centimeters (89.0 to 94.1 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) clay; massive; 1 percent fine distinct olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, throughout and 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter, saturated paste.; moist when described; observed in cut
    Cg4—239 to 262 centimeters (94.1 to 103.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) silt loam; massive; 1 percent coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter, saturated paste.; moist when described; observed in cut
    Cg5—262 to 325 centimeters (103.1 to 128.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) silt loam; massive; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, pH meter, saturated paste.; moist when described; observed in cut
    Cg6—325 to 397 centimeters (128.0 to 156.3 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) clay; massive; 1 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter, saturated paste.; moist when described; observed in cut