IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Normania
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976MN1732301
  • User Pedon ID: S1976MN1732301
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2301
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47765
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 44.7901497
  • Std. Longitude: -95.8572617
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 115N
  • Range: 42W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 2240 feet west and 250 feet south of northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN173—Yellow Medicine
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ALB—Albert Lea, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN173—Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44095-G7—Clarkfield, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic 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 - Normania
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Normania
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/28/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gray till
  • Landform: moraine
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/28/1976 (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
    • 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) loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN230101; dry when described;
    AB—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN230102; dry when described;
    Bw1—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; hard, friable; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN230103; dry when described;
    Bw2—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; hard, friable; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN230104; dry when described;
    Bk—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 11 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; 8 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN230105; dry when described;
    C—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) loam; friable; 11 percent fine grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN230106; dry when described;