IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Weetown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1971MN1111256
  • User Pedon ID: S1971MN1111256
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1256
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49766
  • Print Date: 11/25/2024

    • 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: 46.6513260
  • Std. Longitude: -96.1302990
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 137N
  • Range: 43W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4NW1/4SW1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN111—Otter Tail
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN111—Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46096-F2—Rollag, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Raymond T. Diedrick
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aquic Pachic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Weetown
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Flom
  • 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: local alluvium
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/5/1971 (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
    • 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

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    645

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    145

    6

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and cloddy structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN125601
    A—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN125601
    Bt—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN125602
    Bw—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN125603
    Cg—66 to 76 centimeters (26.0 to 29.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 21 percent fine prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent fine prominent pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    C1—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; massive; friable; 21 percent fine prominent pale yellow (5Y 8/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 21 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    C2—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; massive; friable; 21 percent coarse prominent 2.5Y 5/8 (2.5Y 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence.