IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Biscay
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: depressional
  • User Site ID: S1975MN1452038
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN1452038
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2038
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50098
  • 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: 45.7444115
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0894547
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 126N
  • Range: 35W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 120 feet south and 2320 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN145—Stearns
  • MLRA: 91A—Central Minnesota Sandy Outwash
  • 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: 45095-F1—Raymond Lake, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Rodney Heschke
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Endoaquolls
  • 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 - Biscay
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Biscay
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/26/2011
  • 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 alluvium over sandy and gravelly outwash
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/26/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • 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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (N 2.5/), loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN203801
    A2—23 to 58 centimeters (9.1 to 22.8 inches); black (N 2.5/), sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; friable; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN203802
    Bg—58 to 69 centimeters (22.8 to 27.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 7 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    2C—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent medium distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 7 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN203803
    2Cg—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) coarse sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 12 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN203804