IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mosford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN1452047
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN1452047
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2047
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50103
  • 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: 45.6716990
  • Std. Longitude: -94.8704080
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 125N
  • Range: 33W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 430 feet south and 140 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN145—Stearns
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • 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: 45094-F7—Melrose, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Al Giencke
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mosford
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/26/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glaciofluvial deposits over sandy outwash
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/26/2011 (entry creation 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—69

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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

    1

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    90

    645

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    145

    6

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    A1—0 to 41 centimeters (0.0 to 16.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN204701; moist when described;
    A2—41 to 69 centimeters (16.1 to 27.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN204702; moist when described;
    2Bw1—69 to 99 centimeters (27.2 to 39.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loamy sand; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN204703; moist when described;
    2Bw2—99 to 117 centimeters (39.0 to 46.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN204704; moist when described;
    2C—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0. Lab sample # MN204705; moist when described;