IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rockwood

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: S1962MN111432

User Pedon ID: S1962MN111432

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes

Lab Source ID - UMNSSL2

Lab Pedon # - UMN0432

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82777

Print Date: 11/21/2024

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: 46.4850651

Std. Longitude: -95.1767806

Datum: WGS84

Township: 135N

Range: 36W

Section: 23

PLSS Details: 150 feet northwest of the southeast corner

Country: US—United States

State: Minnesota

County: MN111—Otter Tail

MLRA: 57—Northern Minnesota Gray Drift

Regional Office: NC—North Central

MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota

Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN111—Otter Tail County, Minnesota

7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46095-D2—Wadena, Minnesota

PEDON

Describers Name: Orville D. Friedrich

Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Haplic Glossudalfs

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description

Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site

Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Rockwood

PSC - 46 to 96 cm.

Classificaton Date - 3/15/2013

Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition

Moisture Class - udic

Moisture Subclass - typic

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

Certification Status: certified

QC Status: level 1

QA Status: level 1

SITE

Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till

Landscape: drumlin field

Landform: drumlin

Drainage Class: well

Surface Fragments:

Benchmark Soil?: yes

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 9/6/1962 (actual site observation date)

Surface Cover Properties:

Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover

Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Drained? - no

Bedded Soil? - no

Forest Plantation? - no

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
ochric epipedon albic horizon glossic horizon argillic horizon densic contact densic materials	0—43 23—43 46—122 46—147 147—147 147—165	—43— —20— —76— —101— —- —18—

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
12	—	—	—	—	225	680	—	140	5	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) sandy loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500058

E1—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; weak coarse platy structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500059. numerous coarse gravel and cobbles

E2—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) sandy loam; moderate coarse platy, and moderate medium platy structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MN500060. numerous coarse gravel and cobbles

E/B1, B part—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); 25 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear irregular boundary. some areas with platiness

E/B1, E part—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); 40 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 35 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) loamy sand; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MN500061. some areas with platiness

E/B2, B part—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches); 35 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear irregular boundary. some 10YR 4/3 and 3/4 in B; some pyrite crystals present, appear to be deposited with patchy clay films

E/B2, E part—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches); 65 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) loamy sand; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MN500062. some 10YR 4/3 and 3/4 in B; some pyrite crystals present, appear to be deposited with patchy clay films

B/E, E part—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); 35 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) sandy loam; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500063. thick clay films on some ped surfaces and pores; E occurs as tongues and bands; the B portion is a Bt; also clay is accumulating in [?] 18 inches to the left

B/E, B part—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); 65 percent brown (10YR 4/3) sandy clay loam; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500064. thick clay films on some ped surfaces and pores; E occurs as tongues and bands; the B portion is a Bt; also clay is accumulating in [?] 18 inches to the left

Bt—122 to 147 centimeters (48.0 to 57.9 inches); 40 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) and 35 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 25 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) sandy loam; moderate coarse platy, and moderate medium platy structure; firm; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500065. the 5YR occurs as 1 to 1.5 inch short discontinuous bands; at one place the Bt occurs with a 2 to 3 inch layer of 2.5Y 5/2 loamy sand and Bt both above and below about 3 inches thick

Cd—147 to 165 centimeters (57.9 to 65.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) sandy loam; structureless massive; friable; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN500066