IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ortonville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983MN1553644
  • User Pedon ID: S1983MN1553644
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3644
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48917
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 45.6133957
  • Std. Longitude: -96.6377487
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 125N
  • Range: 48W
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet south and 380 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nancy J. Gire
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-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 - Ortonville
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/14/2017
  • Classifier - T. Neuenfledt
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hamerly
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/23/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/23/1983 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—23

    23—91

    —23—

    —68—
    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

    —

    —

    —

    —

    225

    645

    —

    145

    6

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    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay loam; weak fine granular structure; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN364401; moist when described;
    Bk1—23 to 51 centimeters (9.1 to 20.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; 2 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) gypsum coats; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN364402; moist when described;
    Bk2—51 to 91 centimeters (20.1 to 35.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN364403; moist when described;
    C1—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) sandy loam; 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN364404; moist when described;
    2C2—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) sand; 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MN364405; moist when described;