IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Council
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN055043
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN055043
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1975MN055043
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL2
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2079
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82807
  • 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: 43.8289785
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5436731
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 104N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN055—Houston
  • MLRA: 105—Upper Mississippi River Bedrock Controlled Uplands and Valleys
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ONA—Onalaska, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN055—Houston County, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Leuth
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC6.0B
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Council
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/3/1975
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Council
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/3/1975
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Agronomic Feature - close grown annual crop, or crop-fallow
  • Current Crop - alfalfa
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 114cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): A scan of the original data (i.e. field sheet(s), edits, manuscripts, notes, and other associated data) is available in the RO10 Field Documentation Archive maintained by Adolfo Diaz, RO10 GIS Specialist. This web map can be accessed using the following link: http://arcg.is/1iDqnO Google Chrome is recomended to explore the map. At its full extent, the web map will display the 9 states that make up Region 10 along with a summary of the number of pedons per state. Since there are too many points to display at the full extent you will have to zoom in to an approximate scale of an average county. Once zoomed in you will notice that the pedons will appear both in the legend (Table of content area) and in the map. Once displayed, you can click on any point to open the identification window and get basic information such as: Series Name, location description, Lat-Long and other information. The original document has also been embedded as an attachment and can be previewed by clicking on the pdf file within the identification window. This database represents a snapshot and will be updated once a month. This database can also be directly streamed into an ArcGIS/ArcPro session to be overlaid with your project layers. However, to do so you must have an ArcGIS Online for Organizational account. If you are interested in this please let Adolfo Diaz know and he can work with you to set it up. As a recap, here are the main objectives of this project: 1. Inventory and digitally archive - As soil survey crews finalized surveys and made their way to different offices, many of the original soil survey documentation was left behind or simply discarded as being irrelevant material. The inventory process was an opportunity to collect and organize this legacy documentation. For preservation and accessibility purposes these files were also scanned. 2. Develop a GIS database In order to view the spatial distribution of our inventory and perform spatial queries, pedons with a valid location were digitized. As part of this process, each pedon was assigned a unique siteID using the current NASIS naming convention. 3. Enter into NASIS as needed Having pedons in a GIS gives the user the advantage of spatially assessing field documentation availability and determine whether a pedon should be entered into NASIS for project purposes. If you have any questions contact: Adolfo Diaz, RO10 GIS Specialist, Madison, WI Shaunna Repking, MLRA Soil Scientist, Onalaska, WI

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/3/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BROMU

    MEDIC

    Bromus

    Medicago

    brome

    alfalfa

    grass/grasslike

    forb

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    paralithic contact

    paralithic materials

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

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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

    20

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    180

    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    0009

    LA CRESCENT 0.7 N, MN US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500149. few flecks of 10YR4/4
    Bt1—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few roots; common very fine pores; light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silica coats; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500150. dark brown to brown ped exteriors
    Bt2—46 to 62 centimeters (18.1 to 24.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; few fine roots; common very fine tubular pores; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silica coats; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500151
    Bt3—62 to 89 centimeters (24.4 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; 30 percent sand; 27 percent clay; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine faint and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate very coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; common very fine tubular pores; clay films on all faces of peds and clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500152. 20-30% fine and very fine sand
    2BC—89 to 114 centimeters (35.0 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky, and weak very coarse subangular blocky, and moderate very coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500153
    2Cr—114 to 119 centimeters (44.9 to 46.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) bedrock; fragments. loose sandstone