IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crooksford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980MN063020(3435)
  • User Pedon ID: S1980MN063020(3435)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3435
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48734
  • User Project ID: 2026-4
  • Project Name: MLRA 103 - Western collapsed till plain recorrelation
  • 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: 43.5012398
  • Std. Longitude: -95.3131485
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 101N
  • Range: 37W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet east and 250 feet north of southwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN063—Jackson
  • 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: MN063—Jackson County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43095-E3—Sioux Valley, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ray Genrich, Krupinski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludolls
  • 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 - Crooksford
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Truman
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/5/1980
  • 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
  • Landform: collapsed ice-walled lakebed
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/5/1980 (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), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN343501; moist when described;
    A—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN343502; moist when described;
    Bw1—33 to 71 centimeters (13.0 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN343503; moist when described;
    Bw2—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN343504; moist when described;
    Bw3—91 to 124 centimeters (35.8 to 48.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 33 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN343505; moist when described;
    2C—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay loam; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 33 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence.; moist when described;