IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Normania
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN015024 (2720)
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN015024 (2720)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2720
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47844
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 44.2824707
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9903641
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 109N
  • Range: 35W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 900 feet west and 25 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN015—Brown
  • 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: MN015—Brown County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44094-C8—Boise Lake, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Michael Domeier, Keith Christensen
  • 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 - 7/17/1978
  • 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: rise
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/17/1978 (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 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN272001; moist when described; observed in cut
    A—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN272002; moist when described; observed in cut
    Bw—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN272003; moist when described; observed in cut
    Bk—58 to 86 centimeters (22.8 to 33.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN272004; moist when described; observed in cut
    C1—86 to 137 centimeters (33.9 to 53.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; friable; 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 33 percent gray (5Y 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN272005; moist when described; observed in cut
    C2—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; friable; 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent gray (5Y 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN272006; moist when described; observed in cut