IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sparta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973MN0331621
  • User Pedon ID: S1973MN0331621
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1621
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49863
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 43.9117546
  • Std. Longitude: -95.2505035
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 105N
  • Range: 37W
  • Section: 11
  • Location Description: 600 feet south of road center
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN033—Cottonwood
  • 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: MN033—Cottonwood County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43095-H3—Heron Lake NE, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Entic Hapludolls
  • 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 - Sparta
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • 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: sandy outwash
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/3/2011 (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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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN162101
    A1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN162102
    A2—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN162103
    Bw1—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN162104
    Bw2—66 to 76 centimeters (26.0 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sand; single grain; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN162105
    BC—76 to 122 centimeters (29.9 to 48.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sand; single grain; very friable; 1 percent fine faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN162106
    C—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sand; single grain; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # MN162107