IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dakota
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN0372560
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN0372560
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2560
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50715
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 44.6592598
  • Std. Longitude: -93.0753937
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 114N
  • Range: 19W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 30 feet south and 30 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN037—Dakota
  • MLRA: 91A—Central Minnesota Sandy Outwash
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN037—Dakota County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44093-F1—Coates, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • 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 - Dakota
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dakota
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/4/2011
  • 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 alluvium over sandy outwash
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/4/2011 (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 (10YR 2/1) loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN256001
    A—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN256002
    Bw—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN256003
    Bt1—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN256004
    Bt2—64 to 71 centimeters (25.2 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) coarse sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN256005
    2BC—71 to 107 centimeters (28.0 to 42.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loamy coarse sand; weak fine subangular blocky parts to single grain; loose; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN256006
    2C—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); variegated dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) coarse sand; single grain; loose; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.6. Lab sample # MN256007