IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sandberg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979MN1013193
  • User Pedon ID: S1979MN1013193
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3193
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50753
  • 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: 44.1297569
  • Std. Longitude: -95.6450958
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 108N
  • Range: 40W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 2260 feet north and 460 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN101—Murray
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN101—Murray County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44095-B6—Tracy West, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, frigid Calcic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sandberg
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/15/2017
  • Classifier - T. Neuenfeldt
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arvilla
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/8/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy glaciofluvial deposits over sandy and gravelly outwash
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: drainageway
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/8/2011 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—18

    38—152

    —18—

    —114—
    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

    —

    —

    —

    —

    315

    645

    —

    145

    6

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    —

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    —

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN319301; moist when described;
    2Bw—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) gravelly loamy coarse sand; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 15 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN319302; moist when described;
    2Bk1—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) gravelly loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose; 25 percent fine distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate concretions with clear boundaries on bottom of rock fragments; 25 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN319303; moist when described;
    2Bk2—64 to 152 centimeters (25.2 to 59.8 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) gravelly loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose; 25 percent fine distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate concretions with clear boundaries on bottom of rock fragments; 30 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9. Lab sample # MN319304; moist when described;