IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mayer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MN0471121
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MN0471121
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1121
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49030
  • User Project ID: 2027-2
  • Project Name: MLRA 103 - Talcot and Mayer update
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 43.5422058
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5424957
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 101N
  • Range: 23W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: NW10NE40NW160
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN047—Freeborn
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ALB—Albert Lea, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN047—Freeborn County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43093-E5—Conger, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Orville Whitaker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Typic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mayer
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mayer
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/8/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy alluvium over sandy and gravelly outwash
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/8/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (N 2.5/),, 2.5Y 3/ (2.5Y 3/),, dry; loam; cloddy structure; friable; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN112101
    A—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN112102
    Bg1—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 1 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN112103
    Bg2—64 to 71 centimeters (25.2 to 28.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent medium faint olive gray (5Y 4/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 3 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN112104
    2BCg—71 to 89 centimeters (28.0 to 35.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) loamy coarse sand; weak fine subangular blocky, and single grain; friable; 1 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-10 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN112105
    2Cg—89 to 122 centimeters (35.0 to 48.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) sand; single grain; loose; 3 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent medium prominent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-15 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN112106