IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tara
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN0232841
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN0232841
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2841
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47812
  • 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: 44.9964180
  • Std. Longitude: -95.3307724
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 118N
  • Range: 37W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 1335 feet north and 200 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN023—Chippewa
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN023—Chippewa County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44095-H3—Clara City, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Aquic Hapludolls
  • 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 - Tara
  • PSC - 0 to 0 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tara
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/7/1978
  • 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: loess over gray till
  • Landform: rise
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/7/1978 (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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN284101; moist when described;
    A1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN284102; moist when described;
    A2—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine prismatic structure; friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN284104; moist when described;
    Bw1—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine prismatic structure; friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN284105; moist when described;
    Bw2—64 to 79 centimeters (25.2 to 31.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN284106; moist when described;
    2Bk—79 to 102 centimeters (31.1 to 40.2 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) clay loam; friable; 11 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN284107; moist when described;
    2C—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay loam; friable; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 33 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN284108; moist when described;