IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kilkenny
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1960MN131002
  • User Pedon ID: S1960MN131002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1678
  • User Project ID: 2029-3
  • Project Name: MLRA 103 - Ice Contact and Moraine Investigation
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 44.3369370
  • Std. Longitude: -93.4913330
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 110N
  • Range: 22W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 700 feet east of the northeast corner SW1/4NE1/4
  • Location Description: Shieldsville Township.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN131—Rice
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ALB—Albert Lea, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN131—Rice County, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. S. Allen, R. H. Rust, E. D. Rivers, J. F. Cummins, C. R. Carlson.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty over sandy or sandy-skeletal, smectitic, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kilkenny
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Erin
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1960
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till
  • Landform: moraine
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/29/2020 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A13272
    A21—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak and moderate medium platy structure; very friable, slightly sticky; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A13273
    A22—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A13274
    B21—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and brown (10YR 5/3), dry; clay loam; moderate and strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately plastic; rounded 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A13275. Light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silica coatings; many shale fragments.
    B22—56 to 84 centimeters (22.0 to 33.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay loam; 1 percent red (10R 5/6) fine mottles; strong medium prismatic parts to strong fine and medium angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; very firm, moderately plastic; very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, coats on faces of peds and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, coats on faces of peds and clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent noncoherent cemented iron-manganese concretions; rounded 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A13276. Many fine shale fragments.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1757785; continuous - phpvsfiid 1757786; continuous - phpvsfiid 1757787; continuous - phpvsfiid 1757785; continuous - phpvsfiid 1757786; continuous - phpvsfiid 1757787
    B23—84 to 112 centimeters (33.1 to 44.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) crushed clay loam; 1 percent red (10R 5/6) fine mottles; strong coarse prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm, moderately plastic; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, coats on faces of peds and clay films on faces of peds; rounded 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A13277. Many fine round shale fragments.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1757788; continuous - phpvsfiid 1757789; continuous - phpvsfiid 1757788; continuous - phpvsfiid 1757789
    B24—112 to 145 centimeters (44.1 to 57.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; 1 percent red (10R 5/6) fine prominent and 3 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium distinct mottles; strong coarse prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine tubular pores; very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, coats on faces of peds and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, coats on faces of peds and clay films on faces of peds and organic stains on faces of peds; rounded 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A13278. Pores are root channels filled with organic matter; many fine rounded shale fragments.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1757779; continuous - phpvsfiid 1757780; continuous - phpvsfiid 1757781; continuous - phpvsfiid 1757782; continuous - phpvsfiid 1757779; continuous - phpvsfiid 1757780; continuous - phpvsfiid 1757781; continuous - phpvsfiid 1757782
    B3—145 to 165 centimeters (57.1 to 65.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay loam; light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium distinct and 1 percent red (10R 5/6) fine prominent mottles; massive; firm, moderately plastic; 3.0 tubular pores; very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, coats on vertical faces of peds and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, coats on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; rounded 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A13279. Tendency to vertical cleavage; many fine shale fragments; pores are root channels filled with waxy organic matter.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1757783; continuous - phpvsfiid 1757784; continuous - phpvsfiid 1757783; continuous - phpvsfiid 1757784
    C—165 to 180 centimeters (65.0 to 70.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay loam; 1 percent red (10R 5/6) fine prominent and 3 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) fine distinct mottles; massive; firm, moderately plastic; 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A13280. Many fine shale fragments. Tendency to vertical cleavage.