IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ripon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MN1311067
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MN1311067
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1067
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49679
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 44.4591675
  • Std. Longitude: -93.0420151
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 112N
  • Range: 19W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4SE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN131—Rice
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN131—Rice County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44093-D1—Dennison, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Carroll Carlson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ripon
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rockton
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/26/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty loess
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: limestone, unspecified at 71cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/26/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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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    A—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN106701
    Bt1—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN106702
    Bt2—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN106703
    Bt3—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN106704
    BC—64 to 71 centimeters (25.2 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent medium faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN106705
    R—71 centimeters (28.0 inches); fragments.