IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bigstone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990MN073008 (4430)
  • User Pedon ID: S1990MN073008 (4430)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN4430
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48938
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 45.1002502
  • Std. Longitude: -96.1539001
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 119N
  • Range: 44W
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 2000 feet north and 2200 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN073—Lac qui Parle
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN073—Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45096-A2—Madison, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Peter C. Weikle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, frigid Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bigstone
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bigstone
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glaciolacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: depression
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1990 (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
    • 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

    0

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    645

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    145

    6

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN443001; moist when described;
    A1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); black (5Y 2.5/1), very dark gray (5Y 3/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN443002; moist when described;
    A2—38 to 71 centimeters (15.0 to 28.0 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1), dark gray (5Y 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN443003; moist when described;
    A3—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent fine olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN443004; moist when described;
    Ab1—102 to 112 centimeters (40.2 to 44.1 inches); black (5Y 2.5/1), very dark gray (5Y 3/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN443005; moist when described;
    Ab2—112 to 173 centimeters (44.1 to 68.1 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN443006; moist when described;
    Cg—173 to 216 centimeters (68.1 to 85.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; friable; 11 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # MN443007; wet when described;