IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sunburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN067125 (2648)
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN067125 (2648)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2648
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47912
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 45.1746902
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1612473
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 120N
  • Range: 36W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 2500 feet south and 950 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN067—Kandiyohi
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN067—Kandiyohi County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45095-B2—Pennock, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Allan G. Giencke
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sunburg
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sunburg
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/28/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/28/1978 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    10

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loam; weak fine granular parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN264801; moist when described;
    Bk—18 to 51 centimeters (7.1 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; 8 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN264802; moist when described;
    C—51 to 152 centimeters (20.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; friable; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # MN264803; moist when described;