IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Baroda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972MN0131613
  • User Pedon ID: S1972MN0131613
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1613
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49785
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 43.8744240
  • Std. Longitude: -94.0084076
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 105N
  • Range: 26W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: northwest corner SW1/4SW1/4NW1/4NW1/4
  • 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: 43094-G1—Delavan, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Argiaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Baroda
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Baroda
  • 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: silty and clayey 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:
  • 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
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    A1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (N 2.5/), silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN161301
    A2—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); 10YR 2.5/1 (10YR 2.5/1), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN161302
    A3—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); black (5Y 2.5/1) and dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) silt loam; moderate fine prismatic, and moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN161303
    Btg1—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) and 5Y 3/3 (5Y 3/3) silty clay; moderate fine prismatic, and moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 6 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct olive (5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 1 percent medium distinct olive (5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN161304
    Btg2—76 to 89 centimeters (29.9 to 35.0 inches); black (5Y 2/2) and olive (5Y 4/3) silty clay; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 6 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct olive (5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MN161305
    Cg—89 to 122 centimeters (35.0 to 48.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) clay loam; massive; firm; 1 percent fine distinct olive (5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # MN161306