IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dorset
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974MN0871794
  • User Pedon ID: S1974MN087794
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1794
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49956
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 47.2962020
  • Std. Longitude: -95.5994190
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 144N
  • Range: 39W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 60 feet north and 1370 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN087—Mahnomen
  • MLRA: 57—Northern Minnesota Gray Drift
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN087—Mahnomen County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47095-C5—Roy Lake, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Thomas C. Jackson, Ward J. Aas
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Oxyaquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dorset
  • PSC - 18 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/6/2016
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/12/2011
  • 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 glaciofluvial deposits over sandy and gravelly outwash
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/12/2011 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—41

    —18—

    —23—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    680

    —

    135

    5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; moderate very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN179401
    Bt1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) sandy clay loam; moderate very fine angular blocky structure; friable; 26 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds and 50 percent clay films between sand grains; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN179402. patchy - phpvsfiid 854749; patchy - phpvsfiid 854749
    2Bt2—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 50 percent clay films between sand grains; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN179403
    2C1—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) gravelly sand; single grain; loose; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN179404
    2C2—61 to 152 centimeters (24.0 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) gravelly sand; single grain; loose; 3 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MN179405