IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crowriver
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990MN093001(4414)
  • User Pedon ID: S1990MN093001(4414)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN4414
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48990
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 45.2006607
  • Std. Longitude: -94.5989609
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 120N
  • Range: 31W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet east and 1675 feet north of southwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN093—Meeker
  • 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: MN093—Meeker County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45094-B5—Litchfield North, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Lueth, Miller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Calciaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Crowriver
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Harps
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/14/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gray till and/or gray till
  • Landform: flat, flat
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/14/1990 (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
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    Akp—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (N 2/), loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN441401; observed in cut
    Ak—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); black (N 2/), loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN441402; observed in cut
    Bk—28 to 36 centimeters (11.0 to 14.2 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN441403; observed in cut
    Bkg1—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) sandy loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 11 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN441404; observed in cut
    Bkg2—61 to 152 centimeters (24.0 to 59.8 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) sandy loam; very friable; 30 percent white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate coats on faces of peds and in pores; 33 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # MN441405; observed in cut