IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Balaton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982MN155021 (3540)
  • User Pedon ID: S1982MN155021 (3540)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3540
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48876
  • User Project ID: FFTP_10-FAR19
  • Project Name: MLRA 102A - Fergus Falls Till Plain Formdale Catena Study, Re-correlation and Investigations
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 45.5995598
  • Std. Longitude: -96.3012314
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 125N
  • Range: 45W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 175 feet south and 1830 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-E3—Johnson, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bryan C. Hargrave, Peter R. Hartman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-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 - Balaton
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/19/2019
  • Classifier - Keith Anderson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mcintosh
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/22/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glaciolacustrine deposits over till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: rise
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/22/1981 (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
  • STM Version ID: 1
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—23

    23—66

    —23—

    —43—
    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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    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN354001; moist when described;
    Bk1—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; very friable; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN354002; moist when described;
    Bk2—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) silt loam; very friable; 1 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN354003; moist when described;
    2C—66 to 152 centimeters (26.0 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay loam; firm; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9. Lab sample # MN354004; moist when described;