IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pelan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MN0691205
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MN0691205
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1205
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49629
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 48.7225914
  • Std. Longitude: -96.5391922
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 161N
  • Range: 46W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4SE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN069—Kittson
  • MLRA: 56—Red River Valley of the North
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FAR—Fargo, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN069—Kittson County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48096-F5—Halma, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Donald Barron
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • 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 - Pelan
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Foxhome
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/16/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy and gravelly lacustrine deposits over loamy till
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/16/2010 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; loamy sand; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 90 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 740927; continuous - phpvsfiid 740927
    E—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and brown (10YR 5/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; loamy sand; single grain; loose; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Bt—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very gravelly sandy clay loam; moderate very fine angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; very friable; 40 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN120501
    C—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) extremely gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; 60 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    2Cg1—51 to 81 centimeters (20.1 to 31.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3 percent medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent medium prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary.
    2Cg2—81 to 122 centimeters (31.9 to 48.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent medium prominent light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 3 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence.