IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Parnell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MN0511169
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MN0511169
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1169
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49048
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 46.0089607
  • Std. Longitude: -96.0975418
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 129N
  • Range: 43W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4SW1/4
  • 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: 46096-A1—Wendell, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Vertic Argiaquolls
  • 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 - Parnell
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Parnell
  • 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: silty and clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/10/2010 (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
    • 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

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    645

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (N 2.5/), silty clay loam; moderate very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN116901
    A1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; weak medium platy structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN116902
    A2—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); black (N 2.5/), silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN116903
    Bt1—56 to 112 centimeters (22.0 to 44.1 inches); black (N 2.5/), silty clay; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN116904
    Bt2—112 to 160 centimeters (44.1 to 63.0 inches); black (N 2.5/), silty clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; moderately sticky; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN116905
    Bt3—160 to 173 centimeters (63.0 to 68.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay; moderately sticky; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN116906
    2Cg1—173 to 183 centimeters (68.1 to 72.0 inches); white (10YR 8/1) silt loam; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN116907
    2Cg2—183 to 201 centimeters (72.0 to 79.1 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) silty clay; moderately sticky; 3 percent medium prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN116908
    2Cg3—201 to 279 centimeters (79.1 to 109.8 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) loamy fine sand; slightly sticky; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN116909
    2Cg4—279 centimeters (109.8 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) silt loam; fragments; strong effervescence.