IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Embden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974MN1731894
  • User Pedon ID: S1974MN1731894
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1894
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50002
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 44.8269196
  • Std. Longitude: -95.7990723
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 116N
  • Range: 41W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 260 feet north and 180 feet west of the center
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN173—Yellow Medicine
  • 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: MN173—Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44095-G7—Clarkfield, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Pachic Hapludolls
  • 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 - Embden
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clontarf
  • 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: coarse-loamy glaciofluvial deposits
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • 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
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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) fine sandy loam; cloddy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN189401
    A—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.3; clear smooth boundary.
    Bg1—41 to 74 centimeters (16.1 to 29.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) fine sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1 percent fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.2; clear smooth boundary.
    Bg2—74 to 91 centimeters (29.1 to 35.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1 percent fine prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN189402
    Cg1—91 to 117 centimeters (35.8 to 46.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine sandy loam; massive; very friable; 1 percent fine prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN189403
    Cg2—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) stratified stratified loamy fine sand to sandy loam; massive; very friable; 21 percent coarse prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN189404