IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sandberg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976MN0272241
  • User Pedon ID: S1976MN0272241
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2241
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50126
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 46.9431496
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4418106
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 140N
  • Range: 46W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 1900 feet south and 50 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN027—Clay
  • MLRA: 56—Red River Valley of the North
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FAR—Fargo, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN027—Clay County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46096-H4—Hawley NW, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Charles E. Carr
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, frigid Calcic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sandberg
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sioux
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/3/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: beach
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/3/2011 (entry creation 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—20

    20—97

    —20—

    —77—
    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

    5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    575

    —

    140

    5

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    —

    —

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN224101
    2Bk—20 to 97 centimeters (7.9 to 38.2 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravelly coarse sand; weak coarse granular structure; loose; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN224102
    2C1—97 to 107 centimeters (38.2 to 42.1 inches);, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; sand; single grain; loose; fragments; very slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN224103
    2C2—107 to 147 centimeters (42.1 to 57.9 inches);, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; fragments; very slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN224104
    2C3—147 to 165 centimeters (57.9 to 65.0 inches);, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and brown (10YR 5/3), dry; sand; single grain; loose; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9. Lab sample # MN224105