IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dorchester
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974MN1271860
  • User Pedon ID: S1974MN1271860
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1860
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49966
  • 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: 44.6183014
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1692886
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 113N
  • Range: 26W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 2200 feet east and 200 feet north of the southwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN127—Redwood
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ALB—Albert Lea, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN127—Redwood County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44095-E2—Delhi, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Typic Udifluvents
  • 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 - Dorchester
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dorchester
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/14/2011
  • 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: silty alluvium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/14/2011 (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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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; cloddy, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN186001
    A—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN186002
    Ab1—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Ab2—71 to 122 centimeters (28.0 to 48.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN186003