IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rockton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1980MN099004
  • User Pedon ID: 1980MN099004
  • User Site Association ID: 11-WAV_Rockton_EVAL_Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3377
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48760
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 43.7663705
  • Std. Longitude: -92.4493490
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 104 N
  • Range: 14 W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 1800 feet North and 100 feet West of SE corner
  • Location Description: Mower County, Minnesota; Racine Twp.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN099—Mower
  • MLRA: 105—Upper Mississippi River Bedrock Controlled Uplands and Valleys
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN099—Mower County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43092-G4—Stewartville, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rockton
  • PSC - 33 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Atkinson loam
  • Classificaton Date - 4/9/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy pedisediment over weathered till over limestone
  • Landscape: river valley, dissected till plain
  • Landform: bedrock controlled interfluve, strath terrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/15/1980 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    0.5

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; massive; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    BA—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt coats on surfaces along root channels; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described;
    Bt1—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 546373; continuous - phpvsfiid 546373
    Bt2—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 546374; continuous - phpvsfiid 546374
    Bt3—71 to 89 centimeters (28.0 to 35.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 546375; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 546375
    R—89 centimeters (35.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.