IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brownton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973MN0431636
  • User Pedon ID: S1973MN0431636
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1636
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49871
  • User Project ID: 2028-2
  • Project Name: MLRA 103 - Brownton - Corvuso - Harps - Harpster update
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 43.7596817
  • Std. Longitude: -93.7189255
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 103N
  • Range: 24W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4NW1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN043—Faribault
  • 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: MN043—Faribault County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43093-G6—Matawan, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, calcareous, mesic Vertic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brownton
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brownton
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2011
  • 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: silty and clayey lacustrine deposits over loamy till
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/10/2022 (entry creation 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 (N 2.5/), silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN163601
    A1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); black (N 2.5/), silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN163602
    A2—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN163603
    Bg—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3 percent fine prominent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN163604
    2BCg—74 to 81 centimeters (29.1 to 31.9 inches); weak red (2.5YR 5/2) clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    2Cg—81 to 122 centimeters (31.9 to 48.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; massive; friable; 21 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN163605