IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rockwell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977MN0272421
  • User Pedon ID: S1977MN0272421
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2421
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47767
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 47.0903625
  • Std. Longitude: -96.3208313
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 142N
  • Range: 44W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 1050 feet south and 315 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: 47096-A3—Ulen, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MNJ
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Calciaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rockwell
  • PSC - 0 to 0 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rockwell
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/7/1977
  • 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: lacustrine deposits over gray till
  • Landform: flat
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/7/1977 (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
    • 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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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (N 2/), loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN242101; moist when described;
    Ak—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN242102; moist when described;
    2Bk—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) loamy sand; loose; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN242103; moist when described;
    2Cg1—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) fine sand; loose; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN242104; moist when described;
    2Cg2—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) loamy sand; loose; 1 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN242105; moist when described;
    3Cg3—71 to 140 centimeters (28.0 to 55.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; moderately sticky; 10 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN242106; wet when described;