IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hamel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990MN085058 (4359)
  • User Pedon ID: S1990MN085-058 (4359)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN4359
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48946
  • User Project ID: 2029-3
  • Project Name: MLRA 103 - Ice Contact and Moraine Investigation
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 44.8477821
  • Std. Longitude: -94.1627426
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 28W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet south and 2400 feet east of northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN085—McLeod
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ALB—Albert Lea, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN085—McLeod County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44094-G2—Glenco, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. Perry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hamel
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hamel
  • Classificaton Date - 10/18/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: depression
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/18/1990 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    aquic conditions

    argillic horizon

    0—107

    46—152

    107—152

    —107—

    —106—

    —45—
    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

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0. Lab sample # MN435901; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    A1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2. Lab sample # MN435902; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    A1—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2. Lab sample # MN435903; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    A2—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); black (N 2/), silty clay loam; firm; 1 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0. Lab sample # MN435904; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    A2—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); black (N 2/), silty clay loam; firm; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0. Lab sample # MN435905; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    A3—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) clay loam; firm; 11 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0. Lab sample # MN435906; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Btg—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay loam; firm; 11 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8. Lab sample # MN435907; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket