IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fargo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1971MN0511374
  • User Pedon ID: S1971MN0511374
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1374
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49712
  • User Project ID: 10-FAR_099
  • Project Name: MLRA 56 - Ryan Series - Investigation of soil properties in complex mapunits
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 45.9552269
  • Std. Longitude: -96.1838608
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 129N
  • Range: 44W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4NE1/4SE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN051—Grant
  • 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: MN051—Grant County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45096-H2—Herman NW, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Epiaquerts
  • 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 - Fargo
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fargo
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/23/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey lacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: glacial lake plain
  • Landform: flat
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/23/2010 (entry creation 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
    • 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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay; weak fine granular structure; moderately sticky; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN137401
    A—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); black (5Y 2/1) silty clay; weak fine granular structure; moderately sticky; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN137402
    Bg1—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) silty clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Bg2—46 to 81 centimeters (18.1 to 31.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silty clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky; 1 percent fine distinct pale olive (5Y 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN137403
    BC—81 to 114 centimeters (31.9 to 44.9 inches); olive (5Y 5/4) silty clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky; 3 percent medium distinct gray (5Y 5/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 3 percent fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 7 percent medium gypsum crystals, unspecified in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MN137404