IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ortonville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982MN155001 (3520)
  • User Pedon ID: S1982MN155001 (3520)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3520
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48856
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 45.6272507
  • Std. Longitude: -96.6368866
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 125N
  • Range: 48W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 725 feet south and 155 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN155—Traverse
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN155—Traverse County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45096-F6—Beardsley NW, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. Gerald Floren, Jr., Peter R. Hartman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aquic Calciudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ortonville
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/13/2017
  • Classifier - T. Neuenfeldt
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hamerly
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/16/1982
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy till
  • Landform: rise
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/16/1982 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—20

    20—69

    —20—

    —49—
    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

    0

    —

    —

    —

    —

    645

    —

    145

    6

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay loam; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN352001
    Bk1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; fragments. Lab sample # MN352002
    Bk2—41 to 69 centimeters (16.1 to 27.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay loam; fragments. Lab sample # MN352003
    C1—69 to 99 centimeters (27.2 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 11 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # MN352004
    C2—99 to 152 centimeters (39.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 1 percent red (2.5YR 4/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 33 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # MN352005