IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cormant
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN1132678
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN1132678
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2678
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47880
  • User Project ID: MLRA 56_2022-04
  • Project Name: EVAL - MLRA 56 - Dense Till units of Northwest MN
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 48.0754509
  • Std. Longitude: -96.2764969
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 153N
  • Range: 44W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet south and 1930 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN113—Pennington
  • MLRA: 56—Red River Valley of the North
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FAR—Fargo, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN113—Pennington County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48096-A3—Viking SE, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MDO, RBH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, frigid Mollic Psammaquents
  • 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 - Cormant
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cormant
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/29/1978
  • 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: gray outwash
  • Landform: flat
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/29/1978 (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
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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loamy fine sand; weak fine granular structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN267801; moist when described;
    Cg1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine sand; loose; 0.1 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN267802; moist when described;
    Cg2—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine sand; loose; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent fine gray (10YR 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN267803; moist when described;
    Cg3—58 to 152 centimeters (22.8 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine sand; loose; 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # MN267804; moist when described;