IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aastad
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983MN1553677
  • User Pedon ID: S1983MN1553677
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3677
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48924
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 45.6454468
  • Std. Longitude: -96.6405182
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 125N
  • Range: 48W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 570 feet north and 1056 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nancy J. Gire
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aquic Pachic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Aastad
  • PSC - 51 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/14/2017
  • Classifier - T. Neuenfeldt
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lindaas
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/29/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/29/1983 (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

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—51

    51—71

    71—109

    —51—

    —20—

    —38—
    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

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    —

    —

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    645

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    145

    6

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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN367701; moist when described;
    A—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN367702; moist when described;
    Bt—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN367703; moist when described;
    Bkg—71 to 109 centimeters (28.0 to 42.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent carbonate coats; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN367704; moist when described;
    Cg—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent carbonate coats; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 33 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MN367705; moist when described;