IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Balaton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982MN155019 (3538)
  • User Pedon ID: S1982MN155019 (3538)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3538
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48874
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 45.9802704
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4725037
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 129N
  • Range: 46W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 660 feet north and 150 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN155—Traverse
  • MLRA: 56—Red River Valley of the North
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FAR—Fargo, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN155—Traverse County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45096-H4—Wheaton NW, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Grant K. Johnson, Peter R. Hartman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aquic Calciudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Balaton
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hamerly
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till
  • Landform: rise
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

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    575

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    140

    5

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN353801; moist when described;
    Bk1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; friable; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN353802; moist when described;
    Bk2—41 to 76 centimeters (16.1 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) clay loam; friable; 10 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN353803; moist when described;
    C1—76 to 114 centimeters (29.9 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; friable; 11 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN353804; moist when described;
    C2—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; friable; 11 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN353805; moist when described;