IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fargo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972MN0691502
  • User Pedon ID: S1972MN0691502
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1502
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49797
  • 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: 48.5806007
  • Std. Longitude: -97.0413132
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 159N
  • Range: 50W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 1958 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: 150 feet west of center of road
  • 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: 48097-E1—Drayton SE, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Thomas Jackson, Donald Barron, Nordin
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Epiaquerts
  • 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 - Fargo
  • 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: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey lacustrine deposits
  • 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
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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay; weak very fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN150201
    A1—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay; weak very fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN150202
    A2—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) clay; moderate very fine angular blocky structure; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN150203
    Bg—46 to 86 centimeters (18.1 to 33.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) clay; moderate very fine angular blocky structure; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN150204
    Cg—86 to 127 centimeters (33.9 to 50.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) clay; weak very fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN150205