IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Copaston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1963MN1311070
  • User Pedon ID: S1963MN1311070
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1070
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48995
  • User Project ID: 2027-2
  • Project Name: MLRA 103 - Ice Contact and Moraine Investigation
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 44.4474300
  • Std. Longitude: -93.1872600
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 111N
  • Range: 20W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4SE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN131—Rice
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN131—Rice County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44093-D2—Northfield, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Carroll Carlson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Copaston
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Copaston
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/26/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy alluvium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: limestone, unspecified at 46cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/26/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    A1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN107001
    A2—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN107002
    Bw—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN107003
    R—46 centimeters (18.1 inches); fragments.