IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marysland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1967MN041876
  • User Pedon ID: S1967MN041876
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL2
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN0876
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82783
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 46.0422259
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1712337
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 130N
  • Range: 36W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 280 feet north and 1020 feet west of the SE1/4NE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN041—Douglas
  • MLRA: 91A—Central Minnesota Sandy Outwash
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN041—Douglas County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46095-A2—Rose City, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John C. Harries, John F. Tordsen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Calciaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marysland
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/5/2015
  • Classifier - T. Witkowski
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium over outwash
  • Landscape: outwash plain
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/16/1967 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: John c. harries, John F. Tordsen
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    0—38

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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

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    700

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    150

    6

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    A—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500113; moist when described;
    ABk—30 to 38 centimeters (11.8 to 15.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500114; moist when described;
    Bkg1—38 to 43 centimeters (15.0 to 16.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) gravelly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine distinct irregular very strongly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; 33 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500115; moist when described;
    Bkg2—43 to 51 centimeters (16.9 to 20.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent medium prominent irregular indurated cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 37 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500116; moist when described;
    C1—51 to 81 centimeters (20.1 to 31.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) gravelly fine sandy loam; massive; friable; 30 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500117; moist when described;
    2C2—81 to 91 centimeters (31.9 to 35.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) gravelly loamy fine sand; structureless single grain; loose; 22 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500118; moist when described;
    2C3—91 to 102 centimeters (35.8 to 40.2 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) gravelly loamy fine sand; structureless single grain; loose; 22 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described;
    2C4—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) very gravelly coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose; 56 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, pH meter. Lab sample # MN500119; moist when described;