IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Delft
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN0372558
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN0372558
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2558
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50714
  • User Project ID: 2029-3
  • Project Name: MLRA 103 - Ice Contact and Moraine Investigation
  • Print Date: 3/13/2025
  • 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: 44.4714661
  • Std. Longitude: -93.1876602
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 112N
  • Range: 20W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 40 feet north and 820 feet east of the southwest corner of the SE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN037—Dakota
  • 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: MN037—Dakota County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44093-D2—Northfield, Minnesota
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Delft
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Glencoe
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/4/2011
  • 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: silty colluvium over loamy till
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/4/2011 (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—74

    —74—

    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

    1

    180

    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (N 2.5/), silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN255801
    A1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); black (N 2.5/), silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN255802
    2A2—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN255803
    2A3—56 to 74 centimeters (22.0 to 29.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN255804
    2Bg—74 to 97 centimeters (29.1 to 38.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN255805
    2Cg1—97 to 127 centimeters (38.2 to 50.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; massive; firm; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN255806
    2Cg2—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) and olive (5Y 5/3) clay loam; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MN255807