IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bigstone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974MN1731893
  • User Pedon ID: S1974MN1731893
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1893
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50001
  • Print Date: 1/28/2025

    • 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: 44.6909676
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4432602
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 114N
  • Range: 46W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 780 feet north and 375 feet east of the South Dakota border
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN173—Yellow Medicine
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN173—Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44096-F4—Canby NW, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, frigid Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • 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 - Bigstone
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oldham
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/18/2011
  • 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 glaciofluvial deposits over loamy till
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/18/2011 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (N 2.5/), silty clay loam; cloddy, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN189301
    A1—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); black (N 2.5/), silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN189302
    A2—51 to 94 centimeters (20.1 to 37.0 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN189303
    A3—94 to 124 centimeters (37.0 to 48.8 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3 percent medium distinct olive (5Y 4/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN189304
    2Cg—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) sandy clay loam; firm; 1 percent medium distinct olive (5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN189305