IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sandberg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989MN1114439
  • User Pedon ID: S1989MN1114439
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN4439
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50811
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025
  • 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: 46.3732452
  • Std. Longitude: -96.0956116
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 134N
  • Range: 43W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 1380 feet north and 800 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN111—Otter Tail
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • 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: 46096-C1—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Michael L. Lieser
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, frigid Calcic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sandberg (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sandberg
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2011
  • 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 outwash
  • Landscape: outwash plain, outwash plain
  • Landform: rise, rise
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/24/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown 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

    0—30

    —30—

    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

    4

    45

    645

    145

    6

    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; friable; common (3.0) medium roots throughout and common (3.0) fine roots throughout; 4 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-40 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN443901; moist when described;
    A—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; gravelly loamy coarse sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common (3.0) medium roots throughout and common (3.0) fine roots throughout; 4 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-40 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN443902; moist when described;
    Bw—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) gravelly loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose; 16 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-40 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN443903, MN443903; moist when described;
    Bk—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; 50 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate concretions with clear boundaries on bottom of rock fragments; 25 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-40 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.3; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN443904; moist when described;
    C—74 to 152 centimeters (29.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; 30 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-40 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6. Lab sample # MN443905; moist when described;