IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Quam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976MN0272263
  • User Pedon ID: S1976MN0272263
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2263
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47725
  • 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: 46.8039627
  • Std. Longitude: -96.2747726
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 138N
  • Range: 44W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 395 feet south and 1848 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN027—Clay
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN027—Clay County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46096-G3—Hawley SE, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Svitak
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • 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 - Quam
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dovray
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/14/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: local alluvium over till
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/14/1976 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—97

    —97—
    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

    2

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    645

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    145

    6

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    A1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak fine granular parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; nonsticky; 2.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN226301; wet when described;
    A2—20 to 53 centimeters (7.9 to 20.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; nonsticky; 2.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN226302; wet when described;
    A3—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; weak fine angular blocky structure; moderately sticky; 2.0 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN226306; wet when described;
    A4—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; moderately sticky; 2.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN226308; wet when described;
    2Cg—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; slightly sticky; 1 percent fine olive (5Y 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN226310; wet when described;