IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kato
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN0372645
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN0372645
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2645
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50717
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 44.6520958
  • Std. Longitude: -93.0906296
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 114N
  • Range: 19W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 20 feet south and 65 feet east of the northeast corner of the NW1/4SW1/4
  • 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-silty over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic 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 - Kato
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kato
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/7/2011
  • 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: silty loess over sandy outwash
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/7/2011 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; cloddy structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN264501
    A1—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN264502
    A2—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN264503
    Bg1—58 to 71 centimeters (22.8 to 28.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silt loam; massive; friable; 3 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN264504
    Bg2—71 to 76 centimeters (28.0 to 29.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; massive; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN264505
    2Bg3—76 to 84 centimeters (29.9 to 33.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) sandy loam; massive; friable; 4 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN264506
    3Cg—84 to 152 centimeters (33.1 to 59.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) sand; massive parts to single grain; loose; fragments. Lab sample # MN264507