IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fargo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1971MN1191284
  • User Pedon ID: S1971MN1191284
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1284
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49730
  • User Project ID: 10-FAR_099
  • Project Name: MLRA 56 - Ryan Series - Investigation of soil properties in complex mapunits
  • 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: 48.5954319
  • Std. Longitude: -97.0517711
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 159N
  • Range: 50W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: center
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN119—Polk
  • MLRA: 56—Red River Valley of the North
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FAR—Fargo, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN119—Polk County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48097-A1—Oslo SE, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Donald Barron, Jacobson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Epiaquerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fargo
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fargo
  • Taxonomic Class - Frigid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/18/2010
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey lacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: glacial lake plain
  • Landform: flat
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/18/2010 (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
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    Ap—0 to 46 centimeters (0.0 to 18.1 inches); black (N 2.5/0) clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and strong very fine subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN128401
    Bg1—46 to 104 centimeters (18.1 to 40.9 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) clay; weak fine prismatic, and moderate very fine subangular blocky, and strong fine prismatic structure; moderately sticky; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN128402
    Bg2—104 to 137 centimeters (40.9 to 53.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky; 1 percent fine faint olive (5Y 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN128403
    Cg—137 to 178 centimeters (53.9 to 70.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; weak fine platy, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly sticky; 21 percent medium prominent brown (7.5YR 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent medium prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent medium prominent very pale brown (10YR 8/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MN128404