IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Formdale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1971MN1491353
  • User Pedon ID: S1971MN1491353
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1353
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49775
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 45.5937042
  • Std. Longitude: -95.9213943
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 125N
  • Range: 42W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4SW1/4NW1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN149—Stevens
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN149—Stevens County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45095-E8—Morris, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Alex S. Robertson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Oxyaquic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Formdale
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/18/2015
  • Classifier - Tom Neuenfeldt
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Forman
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/23/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/23/2010 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—25

    25—58

    46—178

    —25—

    —23—

    —132—
    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

    1.5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    0

    645

    —

    145

    6

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    —

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) clay loam; weak medium granular, and cloddy structure; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN135301
    Bt—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; clay bridges on vertical faces of peds and clay films on bottom faces of peds; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN135302. continuous - phpvsfiid 741007; patchy - phpvsfiid 741008; continuous - phpvsfiid 741007; patchy - phpvsfiid 741008
    Btk—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN135303. patchy - phpvsfiid 741009; patchy - phpvsfiid 741009
    Bk1—58 to 89 centimeters (22.8 to 35.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate angular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN135304
    Bk2—89 to 130 centimeters (35.0 to 51.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent medium distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN135305
    2Bk3—130 to 178 centimeters (51.2 to 70.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 3 percent medium distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 3 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5. Lab sample # MN135306