IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arkton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982MN067135(3548)
  • User Pedon ID: S1982MN067135(3548)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3548
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48847
  • User Project ID: 2039-1
  • Project Name: MLRA 103 - Kandiyohi till plain
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 45.1581688
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9389038
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 120N
  • Range: 34W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 525 feet east and 1900 feet north of the southwest 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-B8—Spicer, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Allan Giencke
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Calciudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Arkton
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arkton
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/21/1982
  • 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: till
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/21/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - barren land
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other barren
  • 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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN354801; moist when described;
    Bk—23 to 64 centimeters (9.1 to 25.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots; 10 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 11 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN354802; moist when described;
    C—64 to 152 centimeters (25.2 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay loam; firm; 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN354803; moist when described;