IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fargo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979MN1673185
  • User Pedon ID: S1979MN1673185
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3185
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50774
  • User Project ID: 10-FAR_099
  • Project Name: MLRA 56 - Ryan Series - Investigation of soil properties in complex mapunits
  • 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: 46.2568245
  • Std. Longitude: -96.5784149
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 132N
  • Range: 47W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 1045 feet north and 1050 feet west of the southeast 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-C5—Wahpeton, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jon Hall, Gordon
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Epiaquerts
  • 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 - Fargo
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fargo
  • 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: clayey lacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: glacial lake plain
  • Landform: flat
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/8/2011 (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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay; strong fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN318501
    A1—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); black (5Y 2/1), very dark gray (5Y 3/1), dry; silty clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN318502
    A2—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1), dark olive gray (5Y 3/2), dry; clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN318503
    Bg—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN318504
    BCg—61 to 89 centimeters (24.0 to 35.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) clay; moderate very fine angular blocky structure; very friable; 1 percent fine faint light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN318505
    Cg—89 to 152 centimeters (35.0 to 59.8 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) clay; massive; very friable; 1 percent fine faint light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN318506