IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Downs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976MN0552387
  • User Pedon ID: S1976MN0552387
  • User Site Association ID: Loamy-Silty Uplands (MN, IA, WI) DSP Project 2021-2024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL2
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2387
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82854
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 43.6061600
  • Std. Longitude: -91.2721600
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 5.00
  • Township: 102N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 1700 feet north and 160 feet east of the southeast corner
  • 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43091-E3—Reno, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, 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: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Downs
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2012
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bertrand
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2012
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • 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: lacustrine deposits
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/16/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    albic horizon

    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

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    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 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN238701; moist when described;
    E—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silt loam; moderate medium platy parts to weak medium platy structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN238702; moist when described;
    Bt1—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN238703; moist when described;
    Bt2—46 to 79 centimeters (18.1 to 31.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; strong medium prismatic parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments.; moist when described;. not sampled for lab
    Bt3—79 to 102 centimeters (31.1 to 40.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face silt loam; light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) distinct mottles; strong coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter. Lab sample # MN238704; moist when described;
    Bt4—102 to 122 centimeters (40.2 to 48.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face silt loam; light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) distinct mottles; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; faint dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and faint clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter. Lab sample # MN238705; moist when described;
    C—122 to 163 centimeters (48.0 to 64.2 inches); 2.5Y (2.5Y/), broken face silt loam; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) prominent mottles; structureless massive; friable; faint dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and faint very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter. Lab sample # MN238706; moist when described;