IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Langhei
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968MN121770
  • User Pedon ID: S1968MN121770
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL2
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN0770
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82780
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 45.5711900
  • Std. Longitude: -95.5915790
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 124N
  • Range: 39W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet south and 2250 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: About 3 miles south and 2 1/2 miles west of Starbuck
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN121—Pope
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN121—Pope County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45095-E5—Starbuck, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Raymond T. Diedrick
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Langhei (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/29/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Langhei
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till
  • Landform: moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/28/1968 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Raymond T. Diedrick
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—15

    15—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

    14

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    457

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    645

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    145

    6

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), gray (10YR 6/1) rubbed, dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500107; moist when described;
    Bk—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), dry; loam; moderate coarse platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (2.5Y 7/2), moist, carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500108; moist when described;
    C1—38 to 152 centimeters (15.0 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; massive; friable; 1 percent fine distinct spherical noncoherent cemented grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout and 1 percent fine distinct spherical noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries throughout; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500109; moist when described;
    C2—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; massive; friable; 3 percent medium distinct spherical noncoherent cemented grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout and 3 percent medium distinct spherical noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries throughout; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2.; moist when described;