IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frontenac
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: sandy substratum
  • User Site ID: S1971MN0491538
  • User Pedon ID: S1971MN0491538
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1538
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49709
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 44.5833321
  • Std. Longitude: -92.6175003
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 113N
  • Range: 15W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 1155 feet south and 1600 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: about 10 miles west and 2 miles north of Red Wing
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN049—Goodhue
  • 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: MN049—Goodhue County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44092-E5—Red Wing, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Frontenac (flagged as OSD)
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Frontenac (flagged as OSD)
  • Taxonomic Class - Mesic
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/15/2010
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • 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: sandy colluvium and/or loamy residuum
  • Landform: valley side
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    45

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    300

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    135

    850

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    175

    8

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN153801
    AB—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN153802
    Bw1—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN153803
    Bw2—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN153804
    Bw3—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3) stratified stratified very fine sand to silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN153805
    2C—102 to 356 centimeters (40.2 to 140.2 inches); 70 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/3) and 30 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) flaggy loamy sand; massive; friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MN153806