IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fulda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MN0831142
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MN0831142
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1142
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49643
  • Print Date: 10/31/2024

    • 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: 44.3482050
  • Std. Longitude: -96.0595090
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 110N
  • Range: 43W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 2340 feet north and 50 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN083—Lyon
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN083—Lyon County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44096-C1—Dead Coon Lake, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Hilding L. Hokanson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Vertic Epiaquolls
  • 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 - Fulda
  • 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 - Fulda
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/9/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glaciolacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: lake plain
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/27/1970 (actual site observation 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—56

    56—71

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    —15—
    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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    —

    —

    —

    180

    645

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    145

    6

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; silty clay; cloddy structure; firm; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN114201; moist when described;
    A1—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); black (N 2.5/), silty clay; moderate very fine angular blocky, and strong very fine angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN114202; moist when described;
    A2—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) silty clay; moderate very fine angular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN114203; moist when described;
    Bg—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN114204; moist when described;
    Cg—71 to 152 centimeters (28.0 to 59.8 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) silty clay loam; massive; firm; 3 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3. Lab sample # MN114205; moist when described;