IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rushlake
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988MN111122
  • User Pedon ID: S1988MN111122
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN4372
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48926
  • 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: 46.5726800
  • Std. Longitude: -95.7528120
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 136N
  • Range: 40W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 468 feet south and 2950 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN111—Otter Tail
  • MLRA: 91A—Central Minnesota Sandy Outwash
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN111—Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46095-E7—Star Lake, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Peter R. Hartman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, frigid Aquic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rushlake (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rushlake
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/5/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy and gravelly glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: beach
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/5/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    0—13

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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

    1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    270

    700

    —

    150

    6

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    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; sand; loose; many (21.0) very fine roots throughout and many (21.0) fine roots throughout; 11 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN437201; moist when described;
    C1—13 to 56 centimeters (5.1 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) gravelly coarse sand; loose; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN437202; moist when described;
    C2—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) gravelly coarse sand; loose; 18 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN437203; moist when described;
    Cg1—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) gravelly coarse sand; loose; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN437204; wet when described;
    Cg2—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) gravelly coarse sand; loose; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5. Lab sample # MN437205; wet when described;