IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rockwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN153017 (2660)
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN153017 (2660)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2660
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48550
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 46.0214500
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9902344
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 130N
  • Range: 34W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 1950 feet south and 70 feet east of the center
  • 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
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Glossic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: University of Minnesota
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rockwood
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Classifier - Meredith Albers
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rockwood
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/13/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lodgment till
  • Landscape: drumlin field
  • Landform: drumlin
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/13/1978 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    4

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    90

    680

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    140

    5

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN266001; moist when described;
    BE1—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; sandy loam; weak fine platy structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN266002; moist when described;
    BE2—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, sand coats and 30 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN266003; moist when described;
    Bt1—51 to 99 centimeters (20.1 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 65 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN266004; moist when described;
    Bt2—99 to 114 centimeters (39.0 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate very coarse platy structure; friable; 0.1 very fine roots; 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 65 percent 10YR 2/3 (10YR 2/3), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN266005; moist when described;
    Cd—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) sandy loam; moderate fine platy parts to moderate very coarse platy structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN266006; moist when described;