IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fieldon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972MN0131611
  • User Pedon ID: S1972MN0131611
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1611
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49784
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 44.0469627
  • Std. Longitude: -94.2789078
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 107N
  • Range: 29W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 1320 feet north and 50 feet east of the southwest corner of the NE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN013—Blue Earth
  • 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: MN013—Blue Earth County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44094-A3—Perth, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Typic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fieldon
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/3/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lacustrine deposits
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/3/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    0

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) fine sandy loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN161101
    A1—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) fine sandy loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN161102
    A2—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN161103
    Bkg1—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) loamy fine sand; weak very fine granular, and weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN161104
    Bkg2—74 to 89 centimeters (29.1 to 35.0 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) loamy fine sand; weak fine granular, and weak very fine granular structure; friable; 1 percent fine faint light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN161105
    Cg1—89 to 102 centimeters (35.0 to 40.2 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) loamy fine sand; weak very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN161106
    Cg2—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) fine sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent fine prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 1 percent fine faint olive gray (5Y 4/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # MN161107