IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Truman
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980MN063022 (3439)
  • User Pedon ID: 1980MN063-022 (3439)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3439
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48736
  • User Project ID: 2026-4
  • Project Name: MLRA 103 - Western collapsed till plain recorrelation
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 43.5446129
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1437836
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 101N
  • Range: 36W
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 2500 feet west and 10 feet south of northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN063—Jackson
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ALB—Albert Lea, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN063—Jackson County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43095-E2—Lakefield SW, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: FLOREN & GENRICH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Truman
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/16/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Truman
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lacustrine deposits
  • Landform: collapsed ice-walled lakebed
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/23/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN343901; moist when described;
    A—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN343902; moist when described;
    Bw—46 to 84 centimeters (18.1 to 33.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN343903; moist when described;
    C1—84 to 117 centimeters (33.1 to 46.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; friable; 0.1 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN343904; moist when described;
    C2—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 11 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; strong effervescence.; moist when described;