IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Darnen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1971MN0831295
  • User Pedon ID: S1971MN0831295
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1295
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49746
  • 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: 44.3741798
  • Std. Longitude: -95.7000504
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 111N
  • Range: 40W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN083—Lyon
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ALB—Albert Lea, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN083—Lyon County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44095-C6—Amiret, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Hilding L. Hokanson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aquic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Darnen
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Darnen
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/18/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/18/2010 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    2

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    90

    800

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    155

    8

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; cloddy, and weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN129501
    A1—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN129502
    A2—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN129503
    Bw1—69 to 99 centimeters (27.2 to 39.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN129504
    Bw2—99 to 112 centimeters (39.0 to 44.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MN129505
    Bkg—112 to 130 centimeters (44.1 to 51.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN129506
    2Cg—130 to 152 centimeters (51.2 to 59.8 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) stratified stratified silt loam to sand; massive; friable; 3 percent medium prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent medium prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN129507