IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Parnell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993MN111001
  • User Pedon ID: S1993MN111001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1993MN111001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0762
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66105
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 46.1703606
  • Std. Longitude: -95.9395828
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1 mile west of Dalton
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN111—Otter Tail
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN111—Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46095-B8—Dalton, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jerome Gorton
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Parnell
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Argiaquolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/16/1993
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: local alluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: dead ice moraine
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/16/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PHALA2

    PHRAG

    Phalaris

    Phragmites

    canarygrass

    reed

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    anthropic epipedon

    0—97

    70—200

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    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

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    402

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    135

    597

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    5

    20

    -12

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P05237
    A2—15 to 39 centimeters (5.9 to 15.4 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P05238
    Bt1—39 to 70 centimeters (15.4 to 27.6 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; moderate medium, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P05239
    Bt2—70 to 97 centimeters (27.6 to 38.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay, silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 50 percent faint black (N 2/0) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P05240
    Btg1—97 to 136 centimeters (38.2 to 53.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay, silty clay loam; 1 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine prominent and 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 50 percent faint black (N 2/0) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P05241
    Btg2—136 to 175 centimeters (53.5 to 68.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) silty clay loam; 1 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) fine prominent mottles; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P05242
    Btg3—175 to 208 centimeters (68.9 to 81.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) silty clay; 1 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P05243
    Bg—208 to 230 centimeters (81.9 to 90.6 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) silty clay; dark greenish gray (5GY 4/1) mottles; strong coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 93P05244. green rust abundant in some parts of the matrix; positive reaction to d - dipyridyl; abundant snail shells; few sand coatings on fracture planes.