IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kilkenny
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983MN079004(3700)
  • User Pedon ID: S1983MN079004(3700)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3700
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48907
  • User Project ID: 2029-3
  • Project Name: MLRA 103 - Ice Contact and Moraine Investigation
  • 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: 44.4012489
  • Std. Longitude: -93.6449509
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 111N
  • Range: 23W
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 300 feet east and 800 feet north of southwest corner
  • 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-D6—Le Center, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: James Schulzetendberg, Terry Bovee
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Hapludalfs
  • 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 - Kilkenny
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/19/2019
  • Classifier - Myles Elsen
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kilkenny
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/26/1983
  • 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 over gray till
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/26/1983 (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

    0—23

    23—135

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    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

    7

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN370001; moist when described;
    Bt1—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 5 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN370002; moist when described;
    Bt2—48 to 97 centimeters (18.9 to 38.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.1 very fine roots; 30 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 4 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN370003; moist when described;
    Bt3—97 to 135 centimeters (38.2 to 53.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds and 30 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 4 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN370004; moist when described;
    2C—135 to 152 centimeters (53.1 to 59.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) loam; friable; 5 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of reduced iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-160-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN370005; moist when described;