IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Moody
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN133007 (2733)
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN133007 (2733)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2733
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47944
  • 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: 43.5870399
  • Std. Longitude: -96.3741379
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 101N
  • Range: 46W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 75 feet south and 530 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN133—Rock
  • MLRA: 102C—Loess Uplands
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-STA—Stanton, Nebraska
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN133—Rock County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43096-E3—Hills, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Diers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Udic Haplustolls
  • 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 - Moody
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Moody
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/21/1978
  • 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: loess
  • Landform: loess hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/21/1978 (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
    • 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 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN273301
    A—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN273303
    Bw1—36 to 66 centimeters (14.2 to 26.0 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN273305
    Bw2—66 to 137 centimeters (26.0 to 53.9 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN273307
    BC—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN273309