IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Freeon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1996MN065030
  • User Pedon ID: S1996MN065030
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 96MN065030
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0273
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68748
  • User Project ID: MLCU_10-DUL19
  • Project Name: MLRA 90A - Mille Lacs Uplands Coarse-Loamy Basal Till Investigation
  • Print Date: 5/15/2024

    • 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: 46.1144447
  • Std. Longitude: -93.1586075
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 42 N.
  • Range: 22 W.
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet south and 10 feet west of the NE corner
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN065—Kanabec
  • MLRA: 90A—Wisconsin and Minnesota Thin Loess and Till
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN065—Kanabec County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46093-A2—Pomroy Lake, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: KAC, ALV, MLP
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Oxyaquic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Freeon
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/6/2018
  • Classifier - B. Schug
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Santiago mod. wet
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/23/1996
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over coarse-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: knoll
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/23/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 13A
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ACSA3

    Acer saccharum

    sugar maple

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    glossic horizon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    aquic conditions

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    densic contact

    0—41

    23—41

    41—51

    41—99

    51—127

    99—127

    99—127

    127—

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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

    6

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    330

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 2.0 roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    E1—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 2.0 roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    E2—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; very friable; 2.0 roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2B/E—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); 75 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 25 percent brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; fine sandy loam, silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bt1—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; moderate fine platy, and moderate medium platy structure; firm; 0.5 roots; distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) clay films on bottoms of plates; fine distinct red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 8 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Horizon was described as having few redoximorphic concentrations; no percentage given.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 104248; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 104248
    2Bt2—71 to 99 centimeters (28.0 to 39.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; moderate fine platy, and moderate medium platy structure; firm; 0.5 roots; distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/3) clay films on bottoms of plates; fine distinct red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 8 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Horizon was described as having few redoximorphic concentrations; no percentage given.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 104249; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 104249
    2BC—99 to 127 centimeters (39.0 to 50.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; moderate fine platy, and moderate medium platy structure; very firm; fine distinct red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and fine faint brown (7.5YR 5/3), moist, iron depletions; 9 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Horizon was described as having few redoximorphic concentrations and depletions; no percentage given.
    2BCd—127 to 203 centimeters (50.0 to 79.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; moderate fine platy, and moderate medium platy structure; very firm; 9 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog.; moist when described; observed in pit, small