IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Towner
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979MN1673168
  • User Pedon ID: S1979MN1673168
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3168
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50769
  • 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: 46.2713280
  • Std. Longitude: -96.3494110
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 132N
  • Range: 45W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 1300 feet north and 165 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN167—Wilkin
  • 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: MN167—Wilkin County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46096-C3—Foxhome, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jon Hall, Gordon
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy over loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aquic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Towner
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Towner
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/8/2011
  • 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: sandy lacustrine deposits over loamy till
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/8/2011 (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
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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN316801
    Bw—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) loamy fine sand; weak medium granular, and weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN316802
    2Bkg1—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silt loam; massive; firm; 1 percent fine prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN316803
    2Bkg2—64 to 152 centimeters (25.2 to 59.8 inches); olive (5Y 5/4) silt loam; massive; firm; 3 percent fine prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent fine prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN316804