IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rockwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN1532765
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN1532765
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL2
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2765
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82871
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 46.1057187
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0110943
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 130N
  • Range: 34W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 300 feet south and 75 feet west of the northeast corner of the NW1/4
  • Map Unit: 374B—Rockwood soils, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • 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: 46095-A1—Clotho, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Fran Pierce
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Haplic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rockwood
  • PSC - 65 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/8/2013
  • Classifier - Meredith Albers
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rockwood
  • Taxonomic Class - Typic Fragiboralfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/6/1978
  • Classifier - Fran Pierce
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous lodgment till
  • Landscape: drumlin field
  • Landform: drumlin
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/30/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Fran Pierce
  • 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    83 - 100

    - 17 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    glossic horizon

    argillic horizon

    densic contact

    densic materials

    0—41

    7—41

    41—65

    65—83

    83—83

    83—100

    —41—

    —36—

    —24—

    —18—

    —-

    —17—
    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

    —

    —

    —

    —

    680

    —

    140

    5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; many fine roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500067
    E1—7 to 23 centimeters (2.8 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; weak fine platy structure; very friable; many fine roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500068
    E2—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) sandy loam; weak fine platy, and weak medium platy structure; very friable; few fine roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500069
    E/B—41 to 65 centimeters (16.1 to 25.6 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak medium platy, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500070
    Bt—65 to 83 centimeters (25.6 to 32.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; very firm; 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on surfaces along root channels; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500071
    Cd—83 to 100 centimeters (32.7 to 39.4 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; friable; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN500072