IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Forada
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MN1111153
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MN1111153
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1153
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49655
  • 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: 46.6965675
  • Std. Longitude: -96.1099014
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 137N
  • Range: 43W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4SW1/4NW1/4
  • Location Description: 400' N of 2nd power pole east from quarter section corner SW1/4, SW1/4, NW1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN111—Otter Tail
  • MLRA: 91A—Central Minnesota Sandy Outwash
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN111—Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46096-F1—Cormorant, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Raymond T. Diedrick
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, frigid Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Forada
  • 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 - Forada
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/10/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy glaciofluvial deposits over sandy and gravelly outwash
  • Landscape: outwash plain
  • Landform: depression
  • 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 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • 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

    1

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    700

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    150

    6

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    Oi—0 to 0 centimeters (0.0 to 0.0 inches); mucky peat; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A1—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN115301
    A2—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN115302
    AB—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) sandy loam; single grain; nonsticky; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN115303
    2Cg—64 to 122 centimeters (25.2 to 48.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) gravelly coarse sand; 1 percent medium prominent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN115304