IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Audubon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992MN0054700
  • User Pedon ID: S1992MN0054700
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN4700
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50843
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 46.8516159
  • Std. Longitude: -95.9651184
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 139N
  • Range: 42W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 1400 feet north and 150 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN005—Becker
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN005—Becker County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46095-G8—Audubon, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Keith A. Christensen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Aquertic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Audubon
  • 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 - Audubon
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/15/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/15/2011 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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—25

    25—94

    —25—

    —69—
    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

    3

    —

    —

    —

    —

    225

    645

    —

    145

    6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (N 2.5/), silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # MN470001; moist when described;
    Bk1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MN470002; moist when described;
    Bk2—48 to 94 centimeters (18.9 to 37.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent fine faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent medium faint light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 5 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (2.5Y 7/2), moist, carbonate masses with clear boundaries on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MN470003; moist when described;
    C—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 3 percent medium faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MN470004; moist when described;