IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sioux
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979MN167014
  • User Pedon ID: S1979MN167014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3177
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50770
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 46.4097939
  • Std. Longitude: -96.3222733
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 134N
  • Range: 45W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 1220 feet south and 75 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-D3—Rothsay, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jon F. Hall, Jerome F. Gorton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Entic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sioux
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sioux
  • 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: sandy and gravelly outwash
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: beach ridge
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/10/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Hall and Gordon
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—28

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    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

    3

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    —

    —

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    575

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    140

    5

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN317702; moist when described;
    A—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) gravelly loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN317704; moist when described;
    C—28 to 152 centimeters (11.0 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) very gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; few (0.5) very fine roots around fragments; 50 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7. Lab sample # MN317706; moist when described;