IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Balaton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1971MN0831226
  • User Pedon ID: S1971MN0831226
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1226
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49738
  • 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: 44.2933006
  • Std. Longitude: -95.9335785
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 110N
  • Range: 42W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • 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: 44095-C8—Russell, Minnesota
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aquic Calciudolls
  • 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 - Balaton
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: till
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/17/2010 (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
  • 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

    2

    645

    145

    6

    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN122601
    Ak—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strong effervescence; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MN122602
    Bk—38 to 79 centimeters (15.0 to 31.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN122603
    C—79 to 107 centimeters (31.1 to 42.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay loam; massive; friable; 3 percent medium distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN122604
    Cg—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) clay loam; massive; friable; 21 percent coarse prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN122605