IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rossfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980MN0993445
  • User Pedon ID: S1980MN0993445
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3445
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48769
  • 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: 43.6763306
  • Std. Longitude: -92.4533463
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 103N
  • Range: 14W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 720 feet north and 960 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN099—Mower
  • MLRA: 105—Upper Mississippi River Bedrock Controlled Uplands and Valleys
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ONA—Onalaska, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN099—Mower County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43092-F4—Spring Valley, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: George Poch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rossfield
  • PSC - 38 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rockton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 38 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/30/1980
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • 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: pedisediment
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/30/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

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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

    2

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    —

    —

    —

    180

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay loam; moderate very fine granular structure; friable; 65 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 65 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN344501; moist when described;
    A—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 65 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 65 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN344502; moist when described;
    Bt1—38 to 48 centimeters (15.0 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN344503; moist when described;
    Bt2—48 to 61 centimeters (18.9 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN344504; moist when described;
    Bt3—61 to 69 centimeters (24.0 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN344505; moist when described;
    2C1—69 to 152 centimeters (27.2 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) silt loam; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN344506; moist when described;
    2C2—152 to 183 centimeters (59.8 to 72.0 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) silt loam; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, unspecified. Lab sample # MN344507; moist when described;