IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vallers
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974MN0271754
  • User Pedon ID: S1974MN0271754
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1754
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49922
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 47.1004448
  • Std. Longitude: -96.3021774
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 142N
  • Range: 44W
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 2610 feet south and 210 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN027—Clay
  • 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: MN027—Clay County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47096-A3—Ulen, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Malvern N. Jacobson, Charles E. Carr
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Calciaquolls
  • 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 - Vallers
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Roliss
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/7/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/7/2011 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • 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—33

    33—107

    —33—

    —74—
    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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    0

    —

    —

    —

    —

    575

    —

    140

    5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A1—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly sticky; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN175401
    A2—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly sticky; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN175402
    Bkg1—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly sticky; 3 percent fine prominent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent fine prominent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN175403
    Bkg2—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly sticky; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent medium prominent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent medium prominent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN175404
    Bkg3—66 to 107 centimeters (26.0 to 42.1 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly sticky; 3 percent coarse prominent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN175405
    Cg—107 to 140 centimeters (42.1 to 55.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1 percent fine prominent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN175406