IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sandberg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980MN153008 (3443)
  • User Pedon ID: S1980MN153008 (3443)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3443
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48787
  • 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: 45.7845688
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0336075
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 127N
  • Range: 35W
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 1300 feet south and 800 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN153—Todd
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • 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: 45095-G1—West Union, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Charles T. Saari
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, frigid Humic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sandberg
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/15/2016
  • Classifier - T. Neuenfeldt
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sioux
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/14/1980
  • 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: till plain
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/14/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    calcic horizon

    0—20

    20—152

    —20—

    —132—
    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

    17

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    —

    —

    —

    203

    645

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    145

    6

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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; loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN344301; moist when described;
    Bk—20 to 152 centimeters (7.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) gravelly coarse sand; loose; 0.5 fine roots; 3 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate concretions with clear boundaries on bottom of rock fragments; 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # MN344302; moist when described;