IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Calco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN015015 (2711)
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN015015 (2711)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2711
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47834
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 44.1984291
  • Std. Longitude: -94.7223206
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 109N
  • Range: 32W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet east and 900 feet north of the southwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN015—Brown
  • 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: MN015—Brown County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44094-B6—Lake Hanska West, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Michael Domeier, Keith Christensen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • 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 - Calco
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nishna
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/2/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/2/1978 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—122

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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
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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (5Y 2.5/1), dark olive gray (5Y 3/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN271101; moist when described; observed in cut
    A1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); black (5Y 2.5/1), dark olive gray (5Y 3/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN271102; moist when described; observed in cut
    A2—41 to 122 centimeters (16.1 to 48.0 inches); black (5Y 2.5/1), dark gray (5Y 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN271103; wet when described; observed in cut
    Cg—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1), dark gray (5Y 4/1), dry; clay loam; friable, slightly sticky; 1 percent fine dark gray (5Y 4/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2. Lab sample # MN271104; wet when described; observed in cut