IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vallers
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MN0831134
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MN0831134
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1134
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49638
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024
  • 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: 44.6166649
  • Std. Longitude: -95.7180634
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 113N
  • Range: 40W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4SE1/4SW1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN083—Lyon
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ALB—Albert Lea, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN083—Lyon County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44095-E6—Cottonwood, Minnesota
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Hilding Hokanson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Calciaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vallers
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vallers
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/9/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/9/2010 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

    Akp—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (N 2.5/),, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; clay loam; cloddy structure; friable, moderately sticky; fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN113401
    Ak—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); very dark gray (N 3/), clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine distinct olive (5Y 5/3) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN113402
    Bkg1—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN113403
    Bkg2—64 to 102 centimeters (25.2 to 40.2 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN113404
    Cg—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) clay loam; massive; friable; 21 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; very slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN113405