IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fargo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982MN155024 (3543)
  • User Pedon ID: S1982MN155024 (3543)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3543
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48880
  • User Project ID: 10-FAR_099
  • Project Name: MLRA 56 - Ryan Series - Investigation of soil properties in complex mapunits
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 45.7237511
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4869919
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 126N
  • Range: 46W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 2400 feet south and 650 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN155—Traverse
  • 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: MN155—Traverse County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45096-F4—Dumont, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Brian Hargrave
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Epiaquerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fargo
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fargo
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/21/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: glacial lake plain
  • Landform: flat
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/21/1981 (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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (N 2/), silty clay; moderate fine granular structure; firm; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN354301; dry when described;
    Bg—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN354302; moist when described;
    Cg1—46 to 84 centimeters (18.1 to 33.1 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) silty clay; weak fine angular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent very dark gray (5Y 3/1), moist, organic stains on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN354303; moist when described;
    Cg2—84 to 152 centimeters (33.1 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silty clay; weak fine angular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN354304; moist when described;