IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Knoke
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN0332124
  • User Pedon ID: 75MN033001 (2124)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2124
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50039
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • 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: 44.1740761
  • Std. Longitude: -95.3819885
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 108N
  • Range: 38W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 2540 feet south and 20 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN033—Cottonwood
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN033—Cottonwood County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44095-B4—Walnut Grove, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Knoke
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Unnamed
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/1/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
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    Ap—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); black (N 2.5/),, black (2.5Y 2/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN212401
    A1—33 to 71 centimeters (13.0 to 28.0 inches); black (N 2.5/),, black (2.5Y 2/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # MN212402
    A2—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); black (2.5Y 2/1), very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), dry; clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7. Lab sample # MN212403
    A3—102 to 132 centimeters (40.2 to 52.0 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) worm casts in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9. Lab sample # MN212404
    Cg—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) loam; massive; firm; 3 percent coarse distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1. Lab sample # MN212405