IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Quam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN0272021
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN0272021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2021
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50014
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 46.6534530
  • Std. Longitude: -96.2173480
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 137N
  • Range: 44W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 2970 feet north and 660 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN027—Clay
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN027—Clay County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46096-F2—Rollag, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Malvern N. Jacobson, Svitak
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, frigid Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Quam
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Quam
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/26/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: local alluvium over till
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/26/2011 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • 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

    0—152

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    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

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    645

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    145

    6

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    A1—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; moderate coarse angular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN202101
    A2—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN202102
    A3—58 to 104 centimeters (22.8 to 40.9 inches); black (N 2.5/), silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak very fine granular, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN202103
    2A4—104 to 124 centimeters (40.9 to 48.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; massive; moderately sticky; 1 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN202104
    2A5—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; massive; moderately sticky; 3 percent medium light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, carbonate concretions; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN202105
    2Cg—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) silty clay loam; massive; slightly sticky; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN202106