IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fordville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MN1111154
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MN1111154
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1154
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49656
  • 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: 46.7096977
  • Std. Longitude: -96.1205902
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 137N
  • Range: 43W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4NW1/4SE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN111—Otter Tail
  • MLRA: 91A—Central Minnesota Sandy Outwash
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN111—Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46096-F1—Cormorant, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Raymond T. Diedrick
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Pachic Hapludolls
  • 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 - Fordville
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fordville
  • 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 2
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy glaciofluvial deposits over sandy and gravelly outwash
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: beach
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/10/2010 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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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    A1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN115401
    A2—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; silt loam; strong medium prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN115402
    A3—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; strong medium prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN115403
    Bw—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN115404
    2C—71 to 122 centimeters (28.0 to 48.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN115405