IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marysland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991MN0734603
  • User Pedon ID: S1991MN0734603
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN4603
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50838
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 44.9654503
  • Std. Longitude: -95.9352188
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 117N
  • Range: 42W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 250 feet north and 1600 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
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN073—Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44095-H8—Tenmile Lake, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David H. Tufvesson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Calciaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marysland
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Classifier - Allan G. Giencke
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium over outwash
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/14/2011 (entry creation 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

    calcic horizon

    0—66

    66—107

    —66—

    —41—
    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

    0

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    —

    —

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    645

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    145

    6

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN460301
    Ak1—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); very dark gray (N 3/),, dark gray (N 4/),, dry; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN460302
    Ak2—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN460303
    Bkg1—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent fine faint dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN460304
    Bkg2—86 to 107 centimeters (33.9 to 42.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent fine prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN460305
    Bg—107 to 127 centimeters (42.1 to 50.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 1 percent fine faint dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN460306
    2Cg—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) coarse sand; single grain; friable; 1 percent fine faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 21 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN460307