IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nishna
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977MN1032440
  • User Pedon ID: S1977MN1032440
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2440
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50710
  • 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: 44.2944107
  • Std. Longitude: -94.4269638
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 110N
  • Range: 38W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4NW1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN103—Nicollet
  • 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: MN103—Nicollet County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44094-C4—New Ulm, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, calcareous, mesic Cumulic Vertic 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 - Nishna
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nishna
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/3/2011
  • 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 and clayey alluvium
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/3/2011 (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 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN244001
    A1—30 to 66 centimeters (11.8 to 26.0 inches); black (5Y 2.5/1) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN244002
    A2—66 to 97 centimeters (26.0 to 38.2 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent medium faint olive gray (5Y 4/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 6 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN244003
    A3—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) clay loam; massive; friable; 3 percent medium faint olive (5Y 4/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # MN244004