IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Yellowbank
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991MN073007 (4607)
  • User Pedon ID: S1991MN073007 (4607)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN4607
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48975
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 45.2120370
  • Std. Longitude: -96.2679900
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 120N
  • Range: 45W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 250 feet north and 120 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN073—Lac qui Parle
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • 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: Loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Lithic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Yellowbank (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/8/2017
  • Classifier - T. Neuenfeldt
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Copaston
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/2/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/2/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    lithic contact

    0—30

    41—152

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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

    4

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    270

    645

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    145

    6

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    A1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; many (21.0) fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN460701; moist when described; observed in cut
    A2—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common (3.0) fine roots throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN460702; moist when described; observed in cut
    Bw—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common (3.0) fine roots throughout; 11 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.1; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN460703; moist when described; observed in cut
    R—41 to 152 centimeters (16.1 to 59.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # MN460704. granite