IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Radium
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972MN069005
  • User Pedon ID: S1972MN069005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1399
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49795
  • 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: 48.5865288
  • Std. Longitude: -96.5458298
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 159N
  • Range: 46W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 75 feet south and 1340 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN069—Kittson
  • 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: MN069—Kittson County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48096-E5—Karlstad, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Thomas Jackson, Ward Aas, Suhs
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, frigid Oxyaquic 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 - Radium
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lohnes
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/23/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy and gravelly glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: beach
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/23/2010 (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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    A1—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN139901
    A2—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; coarse sand; single grain; loose; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN139902
    Bw—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) coarse sand; single grain; loose; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN139903
    C1—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN139904
    C2—58 to 107 centimeters (22.8 to 42.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.9. Lab sample # MN139905