IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Formdale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MN0511157
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MN0511157
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1157
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49044
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 45.8601400
  • Std. Longitude: -95.9015810
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 128N
  • Range: 42W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 520 feet south and 410 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN051—Grant
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN051—Grant County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45095-G8—Patchen Lake, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Donald E. DeMartelaere
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, 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 - Formdale
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/10/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/17/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    calcic horizon

    0—23

    36—152

    —23—

    —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

    4

    —

    —

    —

    —

    90

    645

    —

    145

    6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN115701
    Bw—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN115702
    Bk—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN115703
    C—46 to 152 centimeters (18.1 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN115704