IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Formdale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2018MN111001E001
  • User Pedon ID: S2018MN111001E001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N1959
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 46.3127417
  • Std. Longitude: -96.0890889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN111—Otter Tail
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN111—Otter Tail County, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ALL
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Calcic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Formdale
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Calcic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/25/2018
  • Classifier - ALL
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glacial till
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/25/2018 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: ALL-TEAM
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (2.5Y 2.5/1), very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), dry; clay loam; strong medium granular structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N05637; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); black (2.5Y 2.5/1), very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), dry; clay loam; strong medium granular structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N05638; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); black (2.5Y 2.5/1), very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), dry; clay loam; strong medium granular structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N05639; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N05640; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—38 to 50 centimeters (15.0 to 19.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium prismatic structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 5 percent carbonate concretions between peds; 8 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N05641; moist when described; observed in pit, small