IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bigstone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990MN073018 (4427)
  • User Pedon ID: S1990MN073018 (4427)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN4427
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48941
  • 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: 45.1359482
  • Std. Longitude: -96.3193970
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 119N
  • Range: 45W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet south and 2900 feet west of the northeast 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-B3—Bellingham, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Peter C. Weikle, David H. Tufvesson
  • 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 - 10/2/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: local alluvium over till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: —Error in Exists On—
  • 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: 10/2/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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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    A1—0 to 46 centimeters (0.0 to 18.1 inches); black (N 2/),, very dark gray (N 3/),, dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN442701; moist when described;
    A2—46 to 86 centimeters (18.1 to 33.9 inches); black (5Y 2.5/1), very dark gray (5Y 3/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN442702; moist when described;
    A3—86 to 114 centimeters (33.9 to 44.9 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; 33 percent olive gray (5Y 4/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN442703; moist when described;
    2Bg—114 to 137 centimeters (44.9 to 53.9 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1), dark gray (5Y 4/1), dry; clay loam; friable; 1 percent medium dark olive gray (5Y 3/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN442704; moist when described;
    2Cg—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; friable; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent greenish gray (5G 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron and 11 percent gray (5Y 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN442705; moist when described;