IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hamerly
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN1132679
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN1132679
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2679
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47881
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 48.1093903
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4129791
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 154N
  • Range: 45W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 450 feet north and 350 feet east of the southwest 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-A4—Viking SW, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Rodney B. Heschke, R. W. Diers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aeric Calciaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hamerly
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hamerly
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: flat
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1978 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—20

    20—58

    —20—

    —38—
    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

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    45

    575

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    140

    5

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN267901; moist when described;
    Bkg1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loam; weak fine granular parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN267902; moist when described;
    Bkg2—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) loam; friable; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN267903; moist when described;
    Cg1—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) loam; friable; 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN267904; moist when described;
    Cg2—74 to 114 centimeters (29.1 to 44.9 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) loam; friable; 11 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN267905; moist when described;
    Cg3—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) loam; friable; 11 percent fine pale olive (5Y 6/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN267906; moist when described;