IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arvilla
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968MN041849
  • User Pedon ID: S1968MN041849
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL2
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN0849
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82781
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 46.0913360
  • Std. Longitude: -95.5285600
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 130N
  • Range: 39W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 700 feet south and 1980 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN041—Douglas
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • 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-A5—Millerville, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Donald E. DeMartelaere
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, frigid Calcic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Arvilla
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/6/2013
  • Classifier - T. Neuenfeldt
  • 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: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy glaciofluvial deposits over sandy and gravelly outwash
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/10/1968 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: D. Demartelaere
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—18

    18—36

    46—152

    —18—

    —18—

    —106—
    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

    2

    —

    —

    —

    —

    645

    —

    145

    6

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; sandy loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; common (3.0) fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct white (10YR 8/1), moist, sand coats on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500095; moist when described;
    BA—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); 75 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) and 25 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), light brown (7.5YR 6/3), dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; common (3.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500096; moist when described;
    Bw1—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); 90 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) and 10 percent brown (7.5YR 4/2) sandy loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; common (3.0) very fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500097; moist when described;
    2Bw2—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) gravelly loamy sand; single grain; very friable; few (0.5) very fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500098; moist when described;
    2Bk1—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; few (0.5) very fine roots throughout; 5 percent coarse distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate concretions with clear boundaries on bottom of rock fragments; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500099; moist when described;
    2Bk2—58 to 152 centimeters (22.8 to 59.8 inches); 60 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 40 percent brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; 15 percent coarse distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate concretions with clear boundaries on bottom of rock fragments; 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter. Lab sample # MN500100; moist when described;