IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oldham
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1971MN0831303
  • User Pedon ID: S1971MN0831303
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1303
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49753
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 44.4286118
  • Std. Longitude: -95.7961349
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 111N
  • Range: 41W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 20 feet north and 45 feet east of the southwest corner
  • 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-D7—Marshall, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Hilding L. Hokanson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, calcareous, mesic Cumulic Vertic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Oldham
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Classifier - Allan G. Giencke
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/19/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: local alluvium
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: lake plain
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/19/2010 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—117

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    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

    0.5

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (N 2.5/), silty clay; cloddy structure; firm; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN130301; moist when described;
    A1—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay; strong very fine angular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN130302; moist when described;
    A2—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine angular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN130303; moist when described;
    A3—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay; weak very fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN130304; moist when described;
    Bg—84 to 117 centimeters (33.1 to 46.1 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) and dark gray (5Y 4/1) silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MN130305; moist when described;
    Cg—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; massive; friable; 3 percent fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9. Lab sample # MN130306; moist when described;