IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Zimmerman
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN137079 (2640)
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN137079 (2640)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2640
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48540
  • User Project ID: FY17_BEM_MLRA001
  • Project Name: MLRA 57 - Sandy Outwash Catena - Bemidji Sand Plain
  • 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: 47.6597290
  • Std. Longitude: -92.9840164
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 60N
  • Range: 21W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4NE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN137—St. Louis
  • MLRA: 57—Northern Minnesota Gray Drift
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-BEM—Bemidji, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN621—St. Louis County, Minnesota, Virginia Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47092-F8—Dewey Lake NW, Minnesota
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, frigid Lamellic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Zimmerman
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sartell
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/2/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy outwash
  • Landscape: outwash plain
  • Landform: rise
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/2/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    5

    680

    135

    5

    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loamy fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN264001; moist when described;
    E—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loamy fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described;
    Bw1—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) loamy fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN264002; moist when described;
    Bw2—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN264003; moist when described;
    BC—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN264004; moist when described;
    E and Bt4—53 to 152 centimeters (20.9 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; loose; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN264005; moist when described;