IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fram
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972MN0691542
  • User Pedon ID: S1972MN0691542
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1542
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49812
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024
  • 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: 48.7156906
  • Std. Longitude: -96.7854996
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 160N
  • Range: 48W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 660 feet south and 1360 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-F7—Enok, Minnesota
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Donald Barron, Jacobson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aeric 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 - Fram
  • Classificaton Date - 5/24/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hamerly
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/15/2010
  • 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: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/15/2010 (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

    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN154201
    Bk1—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) loam; weak very fine platy, and weak fine prismatic, and moderate fine prismatic, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 4 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN154202
    Bk2—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 4 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN154203
    Cg1—58 to 84 centimeters (22.8 to 33.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 21 percent medium distinct olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent medium prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent medium prominent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN154204
    Cg2—84 to 127 centimeters (33.1 to 50.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 4 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN154205