IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blowers
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981MN159003 (3502)
  • User Pedon ID: S1981MN159003 (3502)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3502
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48831
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 46.5617104
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0112991
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 136N
  • Range: 34W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 1550 feet north and 400 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN159—Wadena
  • MLRA: 57—Northern Minnesota Gray Drift
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN159—Wadena County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46095-E1—Blue Grass, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dave Aldeen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Oxyaquic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blowers
  • PSC - 46 to 97 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/17/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Huntersville
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: brown till
  • Landform: drumlin
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/7/1981 (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); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN350201; moist when described;
    E—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loamy sand; weak medium platy structure; very friable; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN350202; moist when described;
    E/B—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loamy sand; weak medium platy structure; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN350203; moist when described;
    B/E—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films between sand grains; 1 percent fine grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN350204; moist when described;
    Bt1—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium platy structure; friable; 10 percent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, masses of reduced iron and 11 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN350205; moist when described;
    Bt2—107 to 135 centimeters (42.1 to 53.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; firm; 5 percent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN350206; moist when described;
    Cd—135 to 183 centimeters (53.1 to 72.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; friable; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5. Lab sample # MN350207; moist when described;