IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marquis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019MN099CON005
  • User Pedon ID: S2019MN099CON005
  • 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: 12/9/2025

    • 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: 43.7506200
  • Std. Longitude: -92.8413400
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 103N
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 2
  • 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: Kristin Brennan
  • 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 #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marquis
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/7/2020
  • Classifier - Leland Camp
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • 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 - 10/28/2019
  • Classifier - Kristin Brennan
  • 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
  • Landscape: dissected till plain
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/28/2019 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Kristin Brennan
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—53

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    Setting and Climate
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    Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular, and moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear 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 clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular, and moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear 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 22 centimeters (3.9 to 8.7 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular, and moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear 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.)
    AB—22 to 53 centimeters (8.7 to 20.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bw1—53 to 80 centimeters (20.9 to 31.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; manganese masses and 40 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, iron depletions; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-20-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bw2—80 to 110 centimeters (31.5 to 43.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent manganese masses and 30 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions; carbonate, finely disseminated; 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-20-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube
    2C—110 to 230 centimeters (43.3 to 90.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face clay loam; structureless massive; firm; 3 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, iron depletions; carbonate, finely disseminated and 3 percent threadlike carbonate masses; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-20-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; moist when described; observed in push tube. contact at 130 - area of perching high MNM accumulation, saturated/sloppy soil, thin sand line above MNM