IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clotho
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN153015 (2658)
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN153015 (2658)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2658
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48548
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 46.0469000
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9471190
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 130N
  • Range: 34W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 600 feet south and 2300 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN153—Todd
  • MLRA: 57—Northern Minnesota Gray Drift
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN153—Todd County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46094-A8—Browerville SW, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Douglas E. Miller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, frigid Typic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clotho (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Runeberg
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/5/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy till
  • Landscape: drumlin field
  • Landform: interdrumlin
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/5/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    1

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    680

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    135

    5

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    A1—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine platy structure; very hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN265801; dry when described;
    A2—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium platy structure; hard, friable; 0.1 fine roots; 3 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN265802; dry when described;
    Bw1—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable; 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries throughout and 1 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries throughout; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN265803; dry when described;
    Bw2—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; hard, friable; 0.1 fine roots; 3 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries throughout and 3 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries throughout and 3 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN265804; dry when described;
    C1—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), yellow (10YR 7/6), dry; sandy loam; weak coarse platy structure; very hard, friable; 0.1 fine roots; 3 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellow (10YR 7/8), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN265805; dry when described;
    C2—86 to 152 centimeters (33.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; sandy loam; weak coarse platy structure; very hard, friable; 0.1 fine roots; 3 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries throughout; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN265806; dry when described;