IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nicollet
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974MN0331798
  • User Pedon ID: 74MN0331798
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1798
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49946
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 43.8657150
  • Std. Longitude: -95.2920532
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 105N
  • Range: 36W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: northwest corner SW1/4
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN033—Cottonwood
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ALB—Albert Lea, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN033—Cottonwood County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43095-G3—Heron Lake, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nicollet
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nicollet
  • Classificaton Date - 1/12/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Landform: till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: flat
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/12/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • 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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN179801
    A1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN179802
    A2—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard; 21 percent medium faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN179803
    Bw1—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) loam; prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN179804
    Bw2—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN179807
    C—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) loam; massive; friable; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent coarse prominent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 6 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN179809
    Cg—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loam; massive; friable; 21 percent medium prominent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 6 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN179810