IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Quam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MN0511175
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MN0511175
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1175
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49603
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 45.9807930
  • Std. Longitude: -95.9708557
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 129N
  • Range: 42W
  • Section: 16
  • 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: 45095-H8—Elbow Lake, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Doanld E. DeMartelaere
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • 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 - Quam
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Quam
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: local alluvium over fine-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/15/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Donald E. DeMartelaere
  • 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

    0—86

    —86—
    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

    1

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    0

    645

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    145

    6

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (N 2.5/), clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN117501; moist when described;
    A1—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); black (N 2.5/), clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN117502; moist when described;
    A2—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); black (N 2.5/), silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN117503; moist when described;
    A3—51 to 86 centimeters (20.1 to 33.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN117504; moist when described;
    2Bkg—86 to 99 centimeters (33.9 to 39.0 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN117505; moist when described;
    2Cg—99 to 152 centimeters (39.0 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # MN117506; moist when described;