IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Skyberg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981MN099016
  • User Pedon ID: S1981MN099016
  • User Site Association ID: Skyberg_Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3462
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48817
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 43.8374290
  • Std. Longitude: -92.9903183
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 104N
  • Range: 18W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 1340 feet north and 60 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: about 3 miles southeast of Blooming Priarie
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN099—Mower
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN099—Mower County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43092-G8—Waltham, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Carroll Carlson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Skyberg
  • PSC - 43 to 94 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Classifier - Carlson
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brownsdale
  • Taxonomic Class - Mesic
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 43 to 94 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/20/1981
  • Classifier - Carlson
  • 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: loess over loamy till
  • Landform: flat, till plain
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/20/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Carlson
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    737

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    9

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (N 2/),, gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN346201; moist when described;
    Eg1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable; 1 percent medium dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN346202; moist when described;
    Eg2—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate coarse platy structure; friable; 5 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN346203; moist when described;
    Btg1—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 65 percent sand coats on all faces of peds; 33 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN346204; moist when described;
    2Btg2—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 65 percent sand coats on all faces of peds; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN346205; wet when described;
    2Btg3—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 5 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 65 percent sand coats on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN346206; wet when described;
    2BCg—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loam; firm; 11 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified. Lab sample # MN346207; wet when described;