IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kasson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979MN0993109
  • User Pedon ID: S1979MN0993109
  • User Site Association ID: NC-WAV_Kasson_Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3109
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48623
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 43.7366371
  • Std. Longitude: -92.7798462
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 103N
  • Range: 16W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 1600 feet north and 2600 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN099—Mower
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN099—Mower County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43092-F7—Brownsdale, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Carroll Carlson, Stephan Lawler, FJR
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kasson
  • PSC - 25 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Classifier - Carlson
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oran
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/16/1979
  • Classifier - Carlson
  • 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: loess over till
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/16/1979 (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) silt loam; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN310901; moist when described;
    E—20 to 25 centimeters (7.9 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, worm casts lining pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN310902; moist when described;
    Bt1—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN310903; moist when described;
    2Bt2—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN310904; moist when described;
    2Bt3—69 to 104 centimeters (27.2 to 40.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 5 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN310905; moist when described;
    2C—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; firm; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # MN310906; moist when described;