IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Holdingford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979MN153011 (3156)
  • User Pedon ID: S1979MN153011 (3156)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3156
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48670
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 45.9288101
  • Std. Longitude: -94.7502289
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 128N
  • Range: 32W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 1545 feet south and 1045 feet west of the northeast 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: 45094-H7—Long Prairie, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DLJ, DEM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic 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 - Holdingford
  • PSC - 56 to 104 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Holdingford
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/25/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: brown till over gray till
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/25/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - barren land
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other barren
  • 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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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; sandy loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN315601; dry when described;
    E—8 to 36 centimeters (3.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loamy sand; weak fine platy parts to weak medium platy structure; soft, very friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN315602; dry when described;
    Bw—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loamy sand; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN315603; moist when described;
    Bt1—56 to 84 centimeters (22.0 to 33.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN315604; moist when described;
    Bt2—84 to 104 centimeters (33.1 to 40.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 75 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN315605; moist when described;
    C—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse platy structure; very friable; 5 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN315606; moist when described;