IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tara
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN1452044
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN1452044
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2044
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50102
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 45.7352600
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1107254
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 126N
  • Range: 35W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 1860 feet north and 2200 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN145—Stearns
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • 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: 45095-F1—Raymond Lake, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Duane Dykhuizen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Pachic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tara
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tara
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/26/2011
  • 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 lacustrine deposits over loamy till
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/26/2011 (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
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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN204401
    A1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN204402
    A2—38 to 48 centimeters (15.0 to 18.9 inches); 80 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and 20 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN204403
    Bw1—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN204404
    2Bw2—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 8 percent by volume subrounded 5-?-25 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN204405
    2Bw3—86 to 107 centimeters (33.9 to 42.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent medium faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 5 percent by volume subrounded 5-?-15 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN204406
    2C1—107 to 137 centimeters (42.1 to 53.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) loam; massive; friable; 1 percent medium distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent fine faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-10 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN204407
    2C2—137 to 168 centimeters (53.9 to 66.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; massive; friable; 1 percent fine distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 1 percent medium prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-10 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN204408