IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kilkenny
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980MN079004(3253)
  • User Pedon ID: S1980MN079004(3253)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3253
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48748
  • User Project ID: 2029-3
  • Project Name: MLRA 103 - Ice Contact and Moraine Investigation
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 44.3773804
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5597839
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 111N
  • Range: 23W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 1250 feet west and 80 feet south of center
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN079—Le Sueur
  • 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: MN079—Le Sueur County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44093-D5—Montgomery, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: James Schulzetendberg, Terry Bovee
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic 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 - Kilkenny
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/31/2018
  • Classifier - Myles Elsen
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lester
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/13/1982
  • 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: gray till
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/13/1982 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    0—20

    30—94

    71—152

    —20—

    —64—

    —81—
    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

    3

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN325301; moist when described;
    E—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, worm casts; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN325302; moist when described;
    Bt1—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 6 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN325303; moist when described;
    Bt2—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 5 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent red (2.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 4 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN325304; moist when described;
    Bt3—71 to 94 centimeters (28.0 to 37.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay loam; strong coarse prismatic structure; firm; 30 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; 4 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN325307; moist when described;
    BCg—94 to 107 centimeters (37.0 to 42.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 33 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN325308; moist when described;
    Cg—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; friable; 33 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; 6 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN325309; moist when described;