IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Flom
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982MN155007 (3526)
  • User Pedon ID: S1982MN155007 (3526)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3526
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48862
  • User Project ID: FFTP_10-FAR19
  • Project Name: MLRA 102A - Fergus Falls Till Plain Formdale Catena Study, Re-correlation and Investigations
  • 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: 45.6446800
  • Std. Longitude: -96.6396179
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 125N
  • Range: 48W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 300 feet north and 880 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN155—Traverse
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN155—Traverse County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45096-F6—Beardsley NW, Minnesota
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. Gerald Floren, Jr., Grant K.Johnson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Flom
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/19/2019
  • Classifier - Keith Anderson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lindaas
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/17/1982
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey glaciolacustrine deposits over fine-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 18
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/17/1982 (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
  • STM Version ID: 1
  • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    free carbonates

    0—61

    25—84

    25—152

    84—152

    —61—

    —59—

    —-

    —-

    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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    0

    645

    145

    6

    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN352601; moist when described;
    Bt—25 to 61 centimeters (9.8 to 24.0 inches); black (N 2/), clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 65 percent black (N 2/), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN352602; moist when described;
    Btg—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) clay; strong medium angular blocky parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 65 percent very dark gray (5Y 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN352603; moist when described;
    2BCg—84 to 109 centimeters (33.1 to 42.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent dark gray (5Y 4/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN352604; moist when described;
    2Cg—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) clay loam; friable; 11 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MN352605; moist when described;