IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arvilla
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969MN1111253
  • User Pedon ID: S1969MN1111253
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1253
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49015
  • 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: 46.7040405
  • Std. Longitude: -96.0990677
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 137N
  • Range: 43W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4SW1/4SE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN111—Otter Tail
  • 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: MN111—Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46096-F1—Cormorant, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Raymond T. Diedrick
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, frigid Calcic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Arvilla
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy glaciofluvial deposits over sandy and gravelly outwash
  • Landscape: outwash plain
  • Landform: rise
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/17/2010 (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

    calcic horizon

    0—30

    30—46

    61—107

    —30—

    —16—

    —46—
    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

    —

    —

    —

    —

    700

    —

    150

    6

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    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN125301; moist when described;
    A—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Bw1—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN125302; moist when described;
    2Bw2—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) coarse sand; single grain; loose; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN125303; moist when described;
    2Bk—61 to 107 centimeters (24.0 to 42.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; 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; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6.; moist when described;