IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fort Dodge
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1971MN1091270
  • User Pedon ID: S1971MN1091270
  • User Site Association ID: 11-WAV_Terril_Pedons11-WAV_Fort Dodge_Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1270
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47684
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 44.1478882
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5184021
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 108N
  • Range: 14W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 1250 feet south and 40 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN109—Olmsted
  • 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: MN109—Olmsted County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44092-B5—Oronoco, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: George Poch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fort Dodge
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Terril
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium over brown outwash
  • Landform: terrace
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/23/1971 (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

    cambic horizon

    0—79

    79—114

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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

    2

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN127001; moist when described;
    A1—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN127002; moist when described;
    A2—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-3-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN127003; moist when described;
    AB—64 to 79 centimeters (25.2 to 31.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN127004; moist when described;
    Bw1—79 to 94 centimeters (31.1 to 37.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN127005; moist when described;
    Bw2—94 to 114 centimeters (37.0 to 44.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN127006; moist when described;
    2C—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0.; moist when described;