IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Etter
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MN1311062
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MN1311062
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1062
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49675
  • 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: 44.4604225
  • Std. Longitude: -93.1423569
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 112N
  • Range: 19W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 1360 feet north and 320 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: about 1 mile east of Northfield
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN131—Rice
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN131—Rice County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44093-D2—Northfield, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Carroll Carlson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic 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 - Etter
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Etter
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/26/2010
  • 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 pedisediment over sandy residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: terrace, beach plain
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/26/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    5

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    270

    749

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    9

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN106201
    A—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN106202
    Bw1—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN106203
    Bw2—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN106204
    Bw3—61 to 74 centimeters (24.0 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN106205
    2BC—74 to 81 centimeters (29.1 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loamy sand; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; loose; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN106206
    2C1—81 to 99 centimeters (31.9 to 39.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine sand; single grain; loose; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN106207
    2C2—99 to 122 centimeters (39.0 to 48.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and yellow (10YR 7/6) and light gray (10YR 7/2) fine sand; single grain; loose; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0. Lab sample # MN106208