IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marquis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019MN099ALT010
  • User Pedon ID: S2019MN099ALT010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • User Project ID: 2020MNDSP
  • Project Name: Science of Soil Health - University of MN DSP
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • 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: 43.7498400
  • Std. Longitude: -92.8546400
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 103N
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 3
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN099—Mower
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN099—Mower County, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ryan Dermody, Shaunna Repking, Michael England, Dan Nath
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.3
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Marquis
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/29/2019
  • Classifier - Ryan Dermody
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sediments loamy over till
  • Landform: dissected till plain, interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/29/2019 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Shaunna Repking
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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
  • Current Weather - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 6
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    10/29/2019

    10/29/2019

    5

    10

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    5.28

    4.33
    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

    2.5

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    Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube. Surface horizon separated per project sampling guidelines (Science of Soil Health, DSP). Bulk samples were collected for KSSL and UMN analysis for the following depths: 0-5cm, 5-10cm, and remainder of the A horizon. A horizon desinations have been populated to reflect these depths (Ap1, Ap2, Ap3 etc.)
    Ap2—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube. Surface horizon separated per project sampling guidelines (Science of Soil Health, DSP). Bulk samples were collected for KSSL and UMN analysis for the following depths: 0-5cm, 5-10cm, and remainder of the A horizon. A horizon desinations have been populated to reflect these depths (Ap1, Ap2, Ap3 etc.)
    Ap3—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube. Surface horizon separated per project sampling guidelines (Science of Soil Health, DSP). Bulk samples were collected for KSSL and UMN analysis for the following depths: 0-5cm, 5-10cm, and remainder of the A horizon. A horizon desinations have been populated to reflect these depths (Ap1, Ap2, Ap3 etc.)
    BA—20 to 35 centimeters (7.9 to 13.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 40 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube
    2Bw1—35 to 61 centimeters (13.8 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-?-30 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube. This horizon is a thick weak stone line commonly found at the top of the till.
    2Bw2—61 to 100 centimeters (24.0 to 39.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent medium yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 15 percent medium grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-?-6 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube
    2Bw3—100 to 200 centimeters (39.4 to 78.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent coarse yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent coarse gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions; 3 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, and white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses between peds and carbonate, finely disseminated and 2 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, and white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-?-30 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; moist when described; observed in push tube