IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Okoboji
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972MN0131527
  • User Pedon ID: S1972MN013(1527)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1527
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49776
  • Print Date: 2/1/2025

    • 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: 43.9706688
  • Std. Longitude: -94.1695251
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 106N
  • Range: 28W
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 230 feet south and 145 west of the northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN013—Blue Earth
  • 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: MN013—Blue Earth County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43094-H2—Amboy, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Cumulic Vertic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Okoboji
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Waldorf
  • Classificaton Date - 11/24/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey lacustrine deposits
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/24/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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
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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (N 2.5/), silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and cloddy structure; firm; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN152701
    A1—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); black (N 2.5/), silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular, and weak very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN152702
    A2—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN152703
    A3—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); black (5Y 2/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN152704
    A4—64 to 76 centimeters (25.2 to 29.9 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) silty clay; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent fine prominent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN152705
    Bg1—76 to 84 centimeters (29.9 to 33.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN152706
    Bg2—84 to 91 centimeters (33.1 to 35.8 inches); 50 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) and 40 percent olive (5Y 5/3) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent fine prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MN152707
    BCg—91 to 107 centimeters (35.8 to 42.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent medium prominent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MN152708
    Cg—107 to 122 centimeters (42.1 to 48.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silt loam; massive; firm; 21 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent medium prominent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN152709