IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nora
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN133008 (2736)
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN133008 (2736)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2736
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47946
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 43.6745110
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4098358
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 102N
  • Range: 46W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 50 feet south and 645 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN133—Rock
  • MLRA: 102C—Loess Uplands
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-STA—Stanton, Nebraska
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN133—Rock County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43096-F4—Garretson East, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Diers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Udic Haplustolls
  • 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 - Nora
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nora
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/20/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landform: loess hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/20/1978 (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
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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN273601
    Bw—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN273602
    Bk—46 to 91 centimeters (18.1 to 35.8 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN273603
    C—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, organic stains; 1 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN273604