IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vallers
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982MN155008 (3527)
  • User Pedon ID: S1982MN155008 (3527)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3527
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48863
  • 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: 45.6731110
  • Std. Longitude: -96.5949478
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 126N
  • Range: 47W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 130 feet north and 300 feet west of the southeast 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-F5—Beardsley NE, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. Gerald Floren, Jr., Grant K. Johnson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Calciaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vallers
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/13/2018
  • Classifier - Keith Anderson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vallers
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/16/1982
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • 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

    free carbonates

    aquic conditions

    calcic horizon

    0—30

    0—152

    20—152

    30—99

    —30—

    —-

    —-

    —99—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    180

    645

    —

    145

    6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Akp—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # MN352701; moist when described;
    Ak—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # MN352702; moist when described;
    Bkg1—30 to 74 centimeters (11.8 to 29.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; friable; 1 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7. Lab sample # MN352703; moist when described;
    2Bkg2—74 to 99 centimeters (29.1 to 39.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) loam; friable; 11 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7. Lab sample # MN352704; moist when described;
    2Cg—99 to 152 centimeters (39.0 to 59.8 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) loam; friable; 11 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7. Lab sample # MN352705; moist when described;