IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kandota
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981MN153001
  • User Pedon ID: 81MN153001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0061
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50301
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 46.1462300
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1119650
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 131N
  • Range: 35W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 1500 feet south and 1900 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: alternately written 339 meters N and 240 meters E of center
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN153—Todd
  • MLRA: 57—Northern Minnesota Gray Drift
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN153—Todd County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46095-B1—Eagle Bend, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Brug and F. Renner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Glossic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kandota
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kandota
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Eutroboralf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1981
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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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    443

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    0

    680

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    135

    5

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    1Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior sandy loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 fine roots; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00279. many fine roots
    1E—15 to 41 centimeters (5.9 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior sandy loam; weak medium platy, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00280. common fine roots
    2BE—41 to 65 centimeters (16.1 to 25.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, coats on faces of peds and 55 percent faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, skeletans on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00281. many skeletans (sand or silt) surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots
    2Bt—65 to 85 centimeters (25.6 to 33.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior sandy clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and strong medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots between peds; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, coats on faces of peds and 55 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P00282. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; very few fine roots between peds
    2CB—85 to 102 centimeters (33.5 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; weak fine platy structure; firm; brittle; 0.1 fine roots between peds; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, coats on faces of peds and 55 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent carbonate concretions; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00283. few carbonate concretions concentrations; many clay films surface features on faces of peds; very few fine roots between peds
    2C1—102 to 130 centimeters (40.2 to 51.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior sandy loam; weak fine and medium platy structure; firm; brittle; 1 percent carbonate concretions; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00284. few carbonate concretions concentrations
    2C2—130 to 163 centimeters (51.2 to 64.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; firm; brittle; 1 percent carbonate concretions; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00285. few carbonate concretions concentrations
    2C3—163 to 200 centimeters (64.2 to 78.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior sandy loam; weak fine and medium platy structure; firm; brittle; 1 percent carbonate concretions; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00286. few carbonate concretions concentrations
    2C4—200 to 245 centimeters (78.7 to 96.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; firm; brittle; 1 percent carbonate concretions; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00287. few carbonate concretions concentrations
    2C5—224 to 295 centimeters (88.2 to 116.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior sandy loam; weak coarse platy, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 1 percent carbonate concretions; 6 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 82P00288. few carbonate concretions concentrations