IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Quam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993MN111002
  • User Pedon ID: S1993MN111002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1993MN111002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0763
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66106
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 46.1708603
  • Std. Longitude: -95.9396362
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1 mile west of Dalton
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN111—Otter Tail
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN111—Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46095-B8—Dalton, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jerome Gorton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Vertic Argiaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Quam
  • PSC - 67 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/19/2018
  • Classifier - Keith Anderson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: local alluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: dead ice moraine
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/16/1993 (actual site observation 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
  • STM Version ID: 1
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CIAR4

    Cirsium arvense

    Canada thistle

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    aquic conditions

    argillic horizon

    free carbonates

    0—67

    0—180

    67—102

    88—180

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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

    2

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    403

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    180

    597

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    5

    20

    -12

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    Ap—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 medium and coarse roots; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P05245
    A1—14 to 44 centimeters (5.5 to 17.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P05246
    A2—44 to 67 centimeters (17.3 to 26.4 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P05247
    Btg1—67 to 88 centimeters (26.4 to 34.6 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 25 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/4) fine prominent mottles; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 55 percent prominent dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay films; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P05248. oxidized rhyospheres.
    Btg2—88 to 102 centimeters (34.6 to 40.2 inches); 55 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and 40 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay loam; 25 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/4) fine prominent and 25 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine faint mottles; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 93P05249. oxidized rhyospheres; (10YR 2/1) root channels; stone line near lower boundary - siliceous and carbonate pebbles.
    Bkg1—102 to 115 centimeters (40.2 to 45.3 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; 10 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) medium prominent and 25 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine faint mottles; strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P05250. (10YR 2/1) root channels; (10YR 7/1) carbonate pendants on pebbles.
    Bkg2—115 to 145 centimeters (45.3 to 57.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loam; 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine prominent and 25 percent gray (10YR 6/1) fine prominent mottles; strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P05251. carbonate threads.
    Bkg3—145 to 180 centimeters (57.1 to 70.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loam; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) fine prominent and 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine prominent and 25 percent gray (10YR 6/1) fine prominent mottles; strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 93P05252. iron nodules; this horizon extends down to 220 cm then there is a color change to (2.5Y 5/3) with (2.5Y 5/2) mottles; this may be the C horizon however not sure without digging deeper; texture is loam or clay loam.