IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clarion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973MN0331627
  • User Pedon ID: S1973MN0331627
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1627
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49866
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 44.0646896
  • Std. Longitude: -95.3001175
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 107N
  • Range: 37W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4NW1/4NW1/4NW1/4
  • 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: 44095-A3—Storden, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludolls
  • 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 - Clarion
  • Classificaton Date - 8/7/2013
  • Classifier - C.Johnson
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarion
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/4/2011 (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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) loam; cloddy structure; friable; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN162701
    A—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); 70 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 30 percent black (10YR 2/1) loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MN162702
    Bw1—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); 90 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 10 percent black (10YR 2/1) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent black (10YR 2/1) worm casts in matrix; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MN162703
    Bw2—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic, and weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MN162704
    BC—81 to 94 centimeters (31.9 to 37.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak coarse prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN162705
    C—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) loam; weak angular blocky structure; firm; 3 percent medium faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 3 percent medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, manganese masses in matrix; 8 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN162706