IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Corliss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990MN111003
  • User Pedon ID: S1990MN111003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN4371
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50824
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 46.6191390
  • Std. Longitude: -95.6023690
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 136N
  • Range: 39W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 1650 feet north and 1625 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN111—Otter Tail
  • MLRA: 91A—Central Minnesota Sandy Outwash
  • 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: 46095-E5—Perham, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David L. Aldeen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, frigid Typic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Corliss (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 - Corliss
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/11/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy and gravelly outwash
  • Landscape: outwash plain
  • Landform: rise
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/13/1990 (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

    ochric epipedon

    0—18

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    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

    10

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    —

    —

    —

    180

    700

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    150

    6

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    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN437101; moist when described;
    Bw—18 to 71 centimeters (7.1 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) coarse sand; single grain; loose; 13 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN437102; moist when described;
    C—71 to 152 centimeters (28.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; 32 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter. Lab sample # MN437103; moist when described;