IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Formdale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957MN149001
  • User Pedon ID: 57MN149001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1714
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35872
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 124N
  • Range: 43W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: NW NE 1/4
  • Location Description: Stevens County, MN. R23W printed on SSIR description changed to R43W per Mike Lieser
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN149—Stevens

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A.S. Robertson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, frigid Calcic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Formdale
  • Classificaton Date - 7/30/2008
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Formdale
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: dead ice moraine
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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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    1Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior loam, clay loam; structureless cloddy structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A13564. 6085
    1B21—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A13565. 6086; a few small tongues of Ap material extend into this horizon
    1B22—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) interior clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; faint , moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A13566. 6087; patchy - phpvsfiid 228358; patchy - phpvsfiid 228358
    1B3ca—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) interior clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; faint , moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A13567. 6088; patchy - phpvsfiid 228359; patchy - phpvsfiid 228359
    1Cca—53 to 81 centimeters (20.9 to 31.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior clay loam; structureless massive, and weak very fine and fine subangular blocky; friable; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 40A13568. 6089; segregated lime in seams and threads
    1C1—81 to 102 centimeters (31.9 to 40.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior clay loam; 1 percent fine faint mottles; firm; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A13569. 6090; distinct horizontal cleavage in situ which, when broken out, forms coarse irregular plates; few fine faint mottles
    1C2—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior clay loam; 11 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) mottles; firm; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 40A13570. 6091; distinct horizontal cleavage; common 2.5Y56 mottles