IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hecla
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976MN0272246
  • User Pedon ID: S1976MN0272246
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2246
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47715
  • 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: 47.0250511
  • Std. Longitude: -96.3491898
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 141N
  • Range: 45W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 1600 feet north and 1590 feet west of the southeast 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: 47096-A3—Ulen, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Malvern N. Jacobson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, frigid Oxyaquic Hapludolls
  • 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 - Hecla
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/16/2017
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sverdrup
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/18/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy alluvium
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: drainageway
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/18/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    0—38

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    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

    4

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    575

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    140

    5

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    A1—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; loamy sand; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN224603; moist when described;
    A2—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; loamy sand; weak fine granular parts to weak very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN224605; moist when described;
    BA—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; loamy sand; single grain; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN224608; moist when described;
    C1—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; fine sand; single grain; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN224610; moist when described;
    C2—86 to 140 centimeters (33.9 to 55.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loamy sand; single grain; very friable; 1 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # MN224611; moist when described;