IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cordova
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MN1311063
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MN1311063
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1063
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49676
  • User Project ID: 2029-3
  • Project Name: MLRA 103 - Ice Contact and Moraine Investigation
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 44.4408379
  • Std. Longitude: -93.4203568
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 111N
  • Range: 22W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4NW1/4
  • 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44093-D4—Lonsdale, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Carroll Carlson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cordova
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/5/2019
  • Classifier - Myles Elsen
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cordova
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/26/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy ablation till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: flat
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/26/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    0—38

    38—107

    56—122

    —38—

    —69—

    —66—
    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 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN106301
    A2—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN106302
    Btg1—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN106303
    Btg2—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN106304
    Btg3—86 to 107 centimeters (33.9 to 42.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent fine prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN106305
    Cg—107 to 122 centimeters (42.1 to 48.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) loam; massive; friable; 30 percent medium prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MN106306