IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kingston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980MN1013257
  • User Pedon ID: S1980MN1013257
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3257
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50791
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024
  • 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: 44.0368500
  • Std. Longitude: -95.6928406
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 105N
  • Range: 39W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 120 feet west and 100 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN101—Murray
  • 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: MN101—Murray County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44095-A6—Currie, Minnesota
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kingston
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kingston
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/9/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty lacustrine deposits
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/9/2011 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    2

    135

    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN325701
    A1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN325702
    A2—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN325703
    Bw1—48 to 61 centimeters (18.9 to 24.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 21 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) worm casts in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN325704
    Bw2—61 to 74 centimeters (24.0 to 29.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN325705
    Bk—74 to 127 centimeters (29.1 to 50.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; massive; friable; 3 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN325706
    Cg—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; massive; firm; 3 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN325707