IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tara
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN023(1986)
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN023(1986)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1986
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50006
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 44.9964140
  • Std. Longitude: -95.3311010
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 118N
  • Range: 37W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 255 feet west of the center of the east side of 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-H3—Clara City, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Aquic Hapludolls
  • 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 - Tara
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tara
  • 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 over loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: lake plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • 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
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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky, and cloddy structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN198601
    A1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN198602
    A2—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN198603
    Bw—48 to 61 centimeters (18.9 to 24.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN198604
    Bk1—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN198605
    2Bk2—84 to 107 centimeters (33.1 to 42.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN198606
    2Cg—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) loam; massive; friable; 3 percent medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN198607