IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cosmos
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN067154(2898)
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN067154(2898)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMn2898
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47922
  • User Project ID: 2039-1
  • Project Name: MLRA 103 - Kandiyohi till plain
  • Print Date: 4/21/2025

    • 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: 45.1061401
  • Std. Longitude: -94.8843307
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 119N
  • Range: 34W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 1150 feet west and 1350 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: 45094-A8—Little Kandiyohi Lake, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Allan Giencke
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Epiaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cosmos
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Marna
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/25/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lacustrine deposits over gray till
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/25/1978 (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 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (N 2/),, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN289801; moist when described;
    A—25 to 53 centimeters (9.8 to 20.9 inches); black (5Y 2.5/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN289802; moist when described;
    Bg—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium platy structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN289803; moist when described;
    2Cg1—79 to 107 centimeters (31.1 to 42.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) clay loam; firm; 11 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN289804; moist when described;
    2Cg2—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) clay loam; friable; 33 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 8 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1. Lab sample # MN289805; moist when described;