IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brownsdale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979MN0993112
  • User Pedon ID: S1979MN0993112
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3112
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48624
  • 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: 43.8335991
  • Std. Longitude: -92.9698105
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 104N
  • Range: 18W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 50 feet south and 50 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN099—Mower
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN099—Mower County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43092-G8—Waltham, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Carroll Carlson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brownsdale
  • PSC - 43 to 93 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sargeant
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Glossudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 43 to 93 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/17/1979
  • 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 over till
  • Landform: flat
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/17/1979 (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 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; silt loam; structureless massive; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN311201; moist when described;
    A—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN311202; moist when described;
    2Bt1—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 65 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 33 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN311203; moist when described;
    2Bt2—66 to 104 centimeters (26.0 to 40.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) loam; strong medium angular blocky parts to strong coarse prismatic structure; firm; 65 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 65 percent light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, sand coats on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN311204; moist when described;
    2BC—104 to 122 centimeters (40.9 to 48.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 65 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 65 percent light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, sand coats on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN311205; moist when described;
    2C—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 65 percent light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, sand coats on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, unspecified. Lab sample # MN311206; moist when described;