IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Medary
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN0372185
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN0372185
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2185
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50051
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 44.7762794
  • Std. Longitude: -93.1814880
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: 23W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 150 feet north and 1500 feet east of the southwest corner of the NW1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN037—Dakota
  • 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: MN037—Dakota County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44093-G2—Saint Paul SW, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • 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 - Medary
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Medary
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2011
  • 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 and clayey lacustrine deposits
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/1/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silt loam; weak medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN218501
    E—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate fine angular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN218502
    2Bt1—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; strong fine angular blocky structure; firm; 90 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN218503
    2Bt2—51 to 94 centimeters (20.1 to 37.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) silty clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; firm; 90 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN218504
    2Bt3—94 to 107 centimeters (37.0 to 42.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 90 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct gray (7.5YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN218505
    2C1—107 to 127 centimeters (42.1 to 50.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silty clay loam; firm; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0. Lab sample # MN218506
    2C2—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; very friable; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # MN218507
    2C3—152 to 168 centimeters (59.8 to 66.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) stratified stratified silt loam to clay; weak thin platy, and weak very thin platy structure; firm; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # MN218508