IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oran
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN1091958
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN1091958
  • User Site Association ID: Oran_Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1958
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50076
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 43.8733444
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5319366
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 105N
  • Range: 14W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 1220 feet north and 880 feet west of the southeast corner of the NW1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN109—Olmsted
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN109—Olmsted County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43092-G5—High Forest, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquollic 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 - Oran
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sargeant
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/20/2011
  • 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: loamy till
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/20/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN195801
    E1—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 21 percent medium faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 21 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MN195802
    E2—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent medium faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MN195803
    E3—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent medium distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN195804
    2Bt1—61 to 74 centimeters (24.0 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; moderate fine prismatic structure; friable; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN195805
    2Bt2—74 to 86 centimeters (29.1 to 33.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 21 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN195806
    2Bt3—86 to 117 centimeters (33.9 to 46.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 21 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MN195807
    2C—117 to 178 centimeters (46.1 to 70.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; massive; friable; 21 percent medium faint gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MN195808