IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mayer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN1452042
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN1452042
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2042
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50100
  • User Project ID: 2025-2
  • Project Name: MLRA 103 - Talcot and Mayer update
  • 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: 45.7195549
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1031647
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 126N
  • Range: 35W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 1420 feet north and 1200 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN145—Stearns
  • MLRA: 91A—Central Minnesota Sandy Outwash
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN145—Stearns County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45095-F1—Raymond Lake, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Rodney Heschke
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Typic Endoaquolls
  • 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 - Mayer
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mayer
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/26/2011
  • 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: loamy alluvium over sandy and gravelly outwash
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/26/2011 (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
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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (N 2.5/), loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN204201
    A1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); very dark gray (N 3/), loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN204202
    A2—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; friable; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN204203
    Bg—56 to 74 centimeters (22.0 to 29.1 inches); 60 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) and 40 percent dark gray (5Y 4/1) sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN204204
    2Cg1—74 to 119 centimeters (29.1 to 46.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent medium faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 3 percent coarse prominent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 8 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN204205
    2Cg2—119 to 140 centimeters (46.9 to 55.1 inches); 60 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and 40 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) sand; single grain; loose; 3 percent coarse distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent coarse distinct very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    3Cg3—140 to 170 centimeters (55.1 to 66.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) very fine sandy loam; massive; very friable; 1 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN204206