IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ostrander
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969MN099970
  • User Pedon ID: S1969MN099970
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN0970
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47671
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • 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: 43.7357597
  • Std. Longitude: -92.8603363
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 103N
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 2340 feet east and 1240 feet north of the southwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN099—Mower
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN099—Mower County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43092-F7—Brownsdale, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: George Poch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ostrander
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ostrander
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/2/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over pedisediment over till
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/2/2009 (entry creation date)
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—41

    41—97

    —41—

    —56—
    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

    3

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN097001; moist when described;
    A—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN097002; moist when described;
    AB—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 65 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN097003; moist when described;
    BA—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN097004; moist when described;
    2Bw1—51 to 61 centimeters (20.1 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN097005; moist when described;
    2Bw2—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN097006; moist when described;
    2Bw3—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; moderate fine prismatic structure; friable; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN097007; moist when described;
    2BC—97 to 127 centimeters (38.2 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; friable; 11 percent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, masses of reduced iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN097008; moist when described;
    3C—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; firm; 11 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7. Lab sample # MN097009; moist when described;