IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clearwater
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979MN167010 (3167)
  • User Pedon ID: S1979MN167010 (3167)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3167
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48676
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 46.4553871
  • Std. Longitude: -96.5466080
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 134N
  • Range: 47W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 490 feet south and 1000 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN167—Wilkin
  • MLRA: 56—Red River Valley of the North
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FAR—Fargo, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN167—Wilkin County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46096-D5—Wahpeton NE, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jacobson, Gordon
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Epiaquerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clearwater
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clearwater
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/4/1979
  • 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: lacustrine deposits over gray till
  • Landform: flat
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/4/1979 (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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    A—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; loam; moderate very fine granular parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN316701; moist when described;
    2Bg1—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; clay; strong very fine angular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN316702; moist when described;
    2Bg2—51 to 81 centimeters (20.1 to 31.9 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) clay; moderate very fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN316703; moist when described;
    2BCg—81 to 104 centimeters (31.9 to 40.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) silty clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots; 11 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN316704; moist when described;
    2Cg—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silty clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots; 33 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 33 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # MN316705; moist when described;