IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sunburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN067149
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN067149
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2791
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82874
  • 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: 45.1827507
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0731964
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 120N
  • Range: 35W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 140 feet north and 2640 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: about 4 miles north and 1.5 miles west of Willmar
  • 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-B1—Solomon Lake, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Allan G. Giencke
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sunburg (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sunburg
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/10/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/10/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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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    0

    645

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    145

    6

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    Ak—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 fine roots; 8 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN279104; moist when described;
    Bk—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; weak fine platy structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN279105; moist when described;
    C—51 to 152 centimeters (20.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; weak medium platy structure; very friable; 10 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 12 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9. Lab sample # MN279106; moist when described;