IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Formdale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2018MN111007C002
  • User Pedon ID: S2018MN111007C002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N1978
  • 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: 46.3111667
  • Std. Longitude: -96.0829167
  • 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
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/2018
  • 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: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/27/2018 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: all
  • 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 2/1) silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # 18N05731; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); black (2.5Y 2/1) silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # 18N05732; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); black (2.5Y 2/1) silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N05733; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—23 to 50 centimeters (9.1 to 19.7 inches); dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3) loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N05734; moist when described; observed in pit, small