IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Northcote
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972MN0691501
  • User Pedon ID: S1972MN0691501
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1501
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49796
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 48.8042259
  • Std. Longitude: -96.9088669
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 162N
  • Range: 32W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN069—Kittson
  • MLRA: 56—Red River Valley of the North
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FAR—Fargo, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN069—Kittson County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48096-G8—Hallock, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Thomas Jackson, Suhs
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Epiaquerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Northcote
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fargo
  • 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: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey lacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: glacial lake plain
  • Landform: flat
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/23/2010 (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
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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN150101
    Bssg—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) clay; strong very fine subangular blocky, and strong very fine angular blocky structure; pressure faces on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN150102. continuous - phpvsfiid 741015; continuous - phpvsfiid 741015
    Bg—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and strong very fine subangular blocky structure; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN150103
    Cg1—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) clay; weak very fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN150104
    Cg2—97 to 122 centimeters (38.2 to 48.0 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; 3 percent fine prominent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent fine prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN150105