IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Culver
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2017MN115001
  • User Pedon ID: S2017MN115001
  • User Site Association ID: Pine Lake Till Plain Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N0092
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 46.2299000
  • Std. Longitude: -92.9279000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 43 N.
  • Range: 20 W.
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 380 feet South and 50 feet East of the NW corner
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN115—Pine
  • MLRA: 90A—Wisconsin and Minnesota Thin Loess and Till
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN115—Pine County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46092-B8—Finlayson, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Schug
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, frigid Oxyaquic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Culver
  • PSC - 34 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/11/2017
  • Classifier - Dan Wing
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Culver
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Oxyaquic Glossudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 34 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/11/2017
  • Classifier - B. Schug
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/2/2017 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    glossic horizon

    densic contact

    densic materials

    0—23

    23—34

    34—196

    34—50

    196—

    196—200

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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

    1

    —

    —

    405

    —

    785

    —

    125

    5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 5/2), dry; loam; 50 percent sand; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 18N00583; moist when described; observed in trench
    E—23 to 34 centimeters (9.1 to 13.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), dry; loam; 50 percent sand; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 18N00584; moist when described; observed in trench
    B/E—34 to 50 centimeters (13.4 to 19.7 inches); 60 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 40 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) loam; 40 percent sand; 25 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 18N00585; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt1—50 to 107 centimeters (19.7 to 42.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay loam; 36 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, clay films; 1 percent fine prominent manganese masses and 3 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-160-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 18N00586; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt2—107 to 148 centimeters (42.1 to 58.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and reddish brown (5YR 4/3) clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, clay films; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-160-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 18N00587; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt3—148 to 196 centimeters (58.3 to 77.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and reddish brown (5YR 4/3) clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak thick platy parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, clay films; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-160-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 18N00588; moist when described; observed in trench
    Cd—196 to 200 centimeters (77.2 to 78.7 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay loam; 30 percent clay; structureless massive; firm; 1 percent very fine prominent gray (7.5YR 6/1), moist, carbonate masses throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-160-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 18N00589; moist when described; observed in trench