IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Okoboji
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN067123 (2653)
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN064-123 (2653)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2653
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47910
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 45.0649872
  • Std. Longitude: -95.2361679
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 118N
  • Range: 36W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 2450 feet west and 200 feet south of northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN067—Kandiyohi
  • 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: MN067—Kandiyohi County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45095-A2—Raymond, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: GIENCKE
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Cumulic Vertic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Okoboji
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Quam
  • Classificaton Date - 6/26/1982
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lacustrine deposits
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/26/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); black (N 2/),, black (10YR 2/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN265301; moist when described;
    A1—30 to 61 centimeters (11.8 to 24.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN265302; moist when described;
    A2—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN265303; moist when described;
    Bg—81 to 109 centimeters (31.9 to 42.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN265304; moist when described;
    Cg—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; friable; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2. Lab sample # MN265305; moist when described;