IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Waukon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974MN1451838
  • User Pedon ID: S1974MN1451838
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1838
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49979
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 45.6435738
  • Std. Longitude: -94.5746918
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 125N
  • Range: 31W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 130 feet north and 330 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN145—Stearns
  • MLRA: 57—Northern Minnesota Gray Drift
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN145—Stearns County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45094-F5—Albany, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Charles K. Sutton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Mollic Hapludalfs
  • 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 - Waukon
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lester
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/13/2011
  • 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 till
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/13/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN183801
    Bt1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky; 26 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN183802. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 854774; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 854774
    Bt2—36 to 69 centimeters (14.2 to 27.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) clay loam; strong medium prismatic, and strong fine angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky; 90 percent distinct very dark brown (10YR 2/2) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN183803. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 854775; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 854775
    Bt3—69 to 91 centimeters (27.2 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; weak thin platy, and weak medium platy structure; friable, slightly sticky; 6 percent distinct very dark brown (10YR 2/2) clay films on surfaces along root channels; 21 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MN183804. patchy - phpvsfiid 854776; patchy - phpvsfiid 854776
    C—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # MN183805