IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Radium
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977MN1132483
  • User Pedon ID: S1977MN1132483
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2483
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47797
  • 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: 48.0684013
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4358139
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN113—Pennington
  • 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: MN113—Pennington County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48096-A4—Viking SW, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, frigid Oxyaquic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Radium
  • PSC - 0 to 0 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lohnes
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/19/1977
  • 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: gray outwash
  • Landform: beach ridge
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/19/1977 (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 (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; loamy coarse sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN248301; moist when described;
    A—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) coarse sand; weak very fine granular structure; loose; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN248303; moist when described;
    Bw—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very gravelly sand; loose; 45 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN248304; moist when described;
    C1—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) gravelly sand; loose; 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN248306; moist when described;
    C2—81 to 152 centimeters (31.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) gravelly sand; loose; 1 percent fine light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; 17 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5. Lab sample # MN248308; moist when described;