IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rockton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974MN1091738
  • User Pedon ID: S1974MN1091738
  • User Site Association ID: 11-WAV_Rockton_EVAL_Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1738
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47693
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 43.9850883
  • Std. Longitude: -92.3145981
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 106N
  • Range: 12W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 140 feet north and 1000 feet east of the southwest corner of NW1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN109—Olmsted
  • MLRA: 105—Upper Mississippi River Bedrock Controlled Uplands and Valleys
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ONA—Onalaska, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN109—Olmsted County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43092-H3—Marion, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: George Poch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rockton
  • PSC - 36 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rockton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 36 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/9/1974
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • 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: pedisediment
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: strongly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/9/1974 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    —

    —
    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithic contact

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    —

    —

    —

    —-

    —-

    —-

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    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

    —

    —

    —

    —

    0

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    —

    00014925

    ROCHESTER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, MN US

    NOAA
    A1—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) sandy loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN173801; moist when described;
    A2—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, worm casts lining pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN173802; moist when described;
    Bt1—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN173803; moist when described;
    2Bt2—48 to 58 centimeters (18.9 to 22.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) sandy clay loam; strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 65 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN173804; moist when described;
    2Bt3—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) sandy clay loam; strong medium angular blocky structure; extremely firm; 65 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN173805; moist when described;
    R—76 to 77 centimeters (29.9 to 30.3 inches); bedrock; fragments.