IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Balaton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982MN155031 (3578)
  • User Pedon ID: S1982MN155031 (3578)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3578
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48887
  • 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: 45.6426010
  • Std. Longitude: -96.6722794
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 125N
  • Range: 48W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 450 feet south and 1340 feet east of the northwest 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: Peter R. Hartman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Calciudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Balaton
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hamerly
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/5/1982
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/5/1982 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—23

    23—51

    —23—

    —28—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    270

    645

    —

    145

    6

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    Akp—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay loam; weak fine granular parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN357801; moist when described;
    Bk—23 to 51 centimeters (9.1 to 20.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay loam; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN357802; moist when described;
    C1—51 to 79 centimeters (20.1 to 31.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; friable; 0.1 very fine roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN357803; moist when described;
    C2—79 to 122 centimeters (31.1 to 48.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay loam; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 11 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN357804; moist when described;
    C3—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) clay loam; friable; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of reduced iron and 11 percent gray (5Y 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MN357805; moist when described;