IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kratka
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973MN0691638
  • User Pedon ID: S1973MN0691638
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1638
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49875
  • 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: 48.5805092
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4094925
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 159N
  • Range: 45W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 2600 feet south and 125 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN069—Kittson
  • MLRA: 56—Red River Valley of the North
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FAR—Fargo, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN069—Kittson County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48096-E4—Twistal Swamp, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Donald Barron
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy over loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kratka
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Strandquist
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy glaciofluvial deposits over sandy glaciofluvial deposits over loamy till
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/4/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) sandy loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN163801
    Cg1—20 to 71 centimeters (7.9 to 28.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) gravelly sand; single grain; loose; 3 percent medium prominent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent medium prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 25 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN163802
    2Cg2—71 to 140 centimeters (28.0 to 55.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 21 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN163803