IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Balaton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990MN1494436
  • User Pedon ID: S1990MN1494436
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN4436
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50834
  • User Project ID: FFTP_10-FAR19
  • Project Name: MLRA 102A - Fergus Falls Till Plain Formdale Catena Study, Re-correlation and Investigations
  • Print Date: 2/2/2025

    • 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: 45.6840897
  • Std. Longitude: -95.8029556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 126N
  • Range: 41W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 1075 feet south and 890 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN149—Stevens
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN149—Stevens County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45095-F7—Pomme De Terre Lakes, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Donald E. DeMartelaere, Jerome F. Gorton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aquic Calciudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Balaton
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/12/2018
  • Classifier - Keith Anderson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hamerly
  • 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 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 18

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/8/1990 (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
  • STM Version ID: 1
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    free carbonates

    calcic horizon

    aquic conditions

    0—25

    0—150

    25—71

    50—150

    —25—

    —-

    —46—

    —-
    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

    —

    —

    —

    —

    225

    645

    —

    145

    6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN443601; moist when described;
    Bk1—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN443602; moist when described;
    Bk2—38 to 71 centimeters (15.0 to 28.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN443603; moist when described;
    C1—71 to 122 centimeters (28.0 to 48.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; massive; friable; 3 percent fine distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 3 percent medium distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 3 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN443604; moist when described;
    C2—122 to 173 centimeters (48.0 to 68.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; massive; friable; 1 percent medium distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 21 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MN443605; moist when described;