IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): La Prairie
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972MN0831599
  • User Pedon ID: S1972MN0831599
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1599
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49819
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 44.6250076
  • Std. Longitude: -95.9943924
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 113N
  • Range: 43W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4NE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN083—Lyon
  • 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: MN083—Lyon County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44095-F8—Minneota NW, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Cumulic Hapludolls
  • 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 - La Prairie
  • PSC - 30 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - La Prairie
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/23/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/23/2010 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—152

    89—109

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    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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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; cloddy structure; friable; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN159901
    A1—30 to 69 centimeters (11.8 to 27.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN159902
    A2—69 to 89 centimeters (27.2 to 35.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN159903
    Bk—89 to 109 centimeters (35.0 to 42.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN159904
    C—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; massive; friable; 1 percent fine distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN159905