IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Formdale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982MN155004 (3523)
  • User Pedon ID: S1982MN155004 (3523)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3523
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48859
  • User Project ID: FFTP_10-FAR19
  • Project Name: MLRA 102A - Fergus Falls Till Plain Formdale Catena Study, Re-correlation and Investigations
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 45.7157100
  • Std. Longitude: -96.6397290
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 126N
  • Range: 48W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 225 feet south and 960 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
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN155—Traverse County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45096-F6—Beardsley NW, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Peter R. Hartman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Oxyaquic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Formdale
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/3/2019
  • Classifier - Keith Anderson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Formdale
  • 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: fine-loamy till
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 18

    • 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
  • STM Version ID: 1
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    calcic horizon

    free carbonates

    aquic conditions

    0—23

    23—41

    41—91

    41—152

    91—152

    —23—

    —18—

    —50—

    —-

    —-
    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

    4

    —

    —

    —

    —

    90

    645

    —

    145

    6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN352301; moist when described;
    Bw—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN352302; moist when described;
    Bk1—41 to 71 centimeters (16.1 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; friable; 30 percent white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate coats; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN352303; moist when described;
    Bk2—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; friable; 30 percent white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate coats; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN352304; moist when described;
    C1—91 to 102 centimeters (35.8 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; friable; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN352305; moist when described;
    C2—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; friable; 1 percent red (2.5YR 4/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 33 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN352306; moist when described;