IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fargo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974MN0271747
  • User Pedon ID: S1974MN0271747
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1747
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49915
  • User Project ID: 10-FAR_099
  • Project Name: MLRA 56 - Ryan Series - Investigation of soil properties in complex mapunits
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 46.9012070
  • Std. Longitude: -96.6534882
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 140N
  • Range: 47W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 1580 feet south and 156 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN027—Clay
  • 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: MN027—Clay County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46096-H6—Dilworth, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Epiaquerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fargo
  • Classificaton Date - 5/24/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fargo
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/7/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/7/2011 (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

    0.5

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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (N 2.5/), silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN174701
    Bg1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) silty clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; very sticky; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN174702
    Bg2—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN174703
    Bkg1—46 to 74 centimeters (18.1 to 29.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN174704
    Bkg2—74 to 91 centimeters (29.1 to 35.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay; moderate fine platy, and moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; moderately sticky; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent medium distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent medium faint dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN174705
    Cg1—91 to 112 centimeters (35.8 to 44.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) clay; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky; 21 percent medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN174706
    Cg2—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; massive; moderately sticky; 21 percent coarse prominent 5Y 5/8 (5Y 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent coarse prominent 5Y 4/8 (5Y 4/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN174707