IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fossum
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976MN0272257
  • User Pedon ID: S1976MN0272257
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2257
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47720
  • 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: 46.7636795
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4850998
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 138N
  • Range: 46W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4SE1/4SE1/4
  • 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-G4—Downer, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Charles Carr
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, calcareous, frigid Aquic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fossum
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fossum
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/12/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lacustrine deposits
  • Landform: flat
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/12/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), dry; loamy fine sand; loose; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN225701; dry when described;
    Bk—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches);, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; loamy sand; loose; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN225702; dry when described;
    C—46 to 89 centimeters (18.1 to 35.0 inches);, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; sand; loose; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN225703; dry when described;
    Cg1—89 to 119 centimeters (35.0 to 46.9 inches);, pale olive (5Y 6/3), dry; sand; loose; 10 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN225704; dry when described;
    Cg2—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches);, pale olive (5Y 6/3), dry; sand; loose; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN225705; dry when described;