IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blowers
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN153016 (2661)
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN153016 (2661)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2661
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48549
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 46.0339390
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9956980
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 130N
  • Range: 34W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 42 feet south and 1340 feet east of the northwest 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: Charles Saari, Douglas E. Miller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aquic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blowers (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 43 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blowers
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/13/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/13/1978 (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

    2

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    158

    680

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    135

    5

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; sandy loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN266101; moist when described;
    E—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine platy structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots; 11 percent fine dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN266102; moist when described;
    B/E—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 1 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN266103; moist when described;
    Bt1—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate very coarse platy structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN266104; moist when described;
    Bt2—69 to 86 centimeters (27.2 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy loam; moderate coarse platy structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 30 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 65 percent 10YR 2/3 (10YR 2/3), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; 11 percent fine grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN266105; moist when described;
    BC—86 to 102 centimeters (33.9 to 40.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN266106; moist when described;
    Cd—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # MN266107; moist when described;