IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Colvin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN023(1984)
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN023(1984)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1984
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50004
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 44.9559059
  • Std. Longitude: -95.4327393
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 117N
  • Range: 38W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 71 feet south and 165 feet west of the northeast corner of the SE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN023—Chippewa
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN023—Chippewa County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44095-H4—Maynard, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, 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 - Colvin
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Colvin
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/24/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty lacustrine deposits
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/24/2011 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    90

    645

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    145

    6

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN198401
    Ak—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN198402
    Bkg—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN198403
    Cg—61 to 114 centimeters (24.0 to 44.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; strong medium platy structure; friable; 3 percent medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN198404
    C—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; massive; friable; 3 percent medium distinct olive gray (5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN198405