IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Verndale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN145001 (2265)
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN145001 (2265)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2265
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47708
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024
  • 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: 45.5712509
  • Std. Longitude: -94.3134232
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 124N
  • Range: 29W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet south and 2200 feet east of northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN145—Stearns
  • MLRA: 91A—Central Minnesota Sandy Outwash
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN145—Stearns County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45094-E3—Saint Joseph, Minnesota
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Charles Saari, Grant Goltz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Verndale
  • PSC - 30 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dickman
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/5/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy glaciofluvial deposits over outwash
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/5/1975 (actual site observation 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

    3

    0

    700

    150

    6

    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; sandy loam; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN226501; moist when described;
    A—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN226502; moist when described;
    Bt1—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 65 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN226503; moist when described;
    2Bt1—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN226504; moist when described;
    BC—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sand; loose; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN226505; moist when described;
    C1—86 to 102 centimeters (33.9 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sand; loose; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN226506; moist when described;
    C2—102 to 163 centimeters (40.2 to 64.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) coarse sand; loose; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN226507; moist when described;
    C3—163 to 183 centimeters (64.2 to 72.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sand; loose; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # MN226508; moist when described;