IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Balaton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982MN155025 (3575)
  • User Pedon ID: S1982MN155025 (3575)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3575
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48881
  • User Project ID: FFTP_10-FAR19
  • Project Name: MLRA 102A - Fergus Falls Till Plain Formdale Catena Study, Re-correlation and Investigations
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 45.7011490
  • Std. Longitude: -96.6480331
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 126N
  • Range: 48W
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 250 feet south and 2250 feet east of the northwest 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: 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
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Balaton
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/13/2018
  • Classifier - Keith Anderson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hamerly
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/5/1982
  • 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
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 18

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/5/1982 (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

    free carbonates

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    aquic conditions

    0—152

    0—25

    25—48

    76—152

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    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

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    225

    645

    —

    145

    6

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) clay loam; weak medium granular parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN357501; moist when described;
    Bk—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN357502; moist when described;
    C1—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; massive; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN357503; moist when described;
    C2—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; massive; friable; 0.1 very fine roots; 1 percent gray (5Y 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron and 10 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN357504; moist when described;
    C3—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; massive; friable; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent gray (5Y 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN357505; moist when described;
    C4—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; massive; friable; 1 percent masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent masses of reduced iron; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN357506; moist when described;