IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fordville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MN051001
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MN051001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1156
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49043
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 45.9929670
  • Std. Longitude: -95.8897650
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 129N
  • Range: 41W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 300 feet north and 900 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN051—Grant
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN051—Grant County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45095-H8—Elbow Lake, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Donald E. DeMartelaere
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Pachic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fordville
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/3/2017
  • Classifier - T. Neuenfeldt
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arvilla
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/10/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy glaciofluvial deposits over sandy and gravelly outwash
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: drainageway
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    calcic horizon

    0—51

    51—152

    —51—

    —101—
    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

    4

    —

    —

    —

    —

    90

    645

    —

    145

    6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) sandy loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; many (21.0) fine roots throughout; 21 percent distinct white (10YR 8/1), moist, sand coats on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN115601; moist when described;
    A2—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; many (21.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN115602; moist when described;
    Bw1—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; many (21.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN115603; moist when described;
    2Bw2—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) gravelly loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described;
    2Bk—51 to 152 centimeters (20.1 to 59.8 inches); variegated pale brown (10YR 6/3) and light gray (10YR 7/2) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; 21 percent medium distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate concretions with clear boundaries on bottom of rock fragments; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6.; moist when described;