IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kandota
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990MN1114370
  • User Pedon ID: S1990MN1114370
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN4370
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50823
  • 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: 46.4972534
  • Std. Longitude: -95.4714127
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 135N
  • Range: 38W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 650 feet south and 100 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN111—Otter Tail
  • MLRA: 57—Northern Minnesota Gray Drift
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN111—Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46095-D4—Heinola, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David L. Aldeen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kandota
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/17/2017
  • Classifier - T. Neuenfeldt
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/11/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/15/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—28

    28—81

    —28—

    —53—
    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

    —

    —

    —

    —

    680

    —

    135

    5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    —

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.1; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN437001; moist when described;
    E—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; fine sandy loam; weak thin platy, and weak medium platy structure; friable; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN437002; moist when described;
    Bt1—28 to 56 centimeters (11.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 40 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.5; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN437003; moist when described;
    Bt2—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 20 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN437004; moist when described;
    Bk—81 to 173 centimeters (31.9 to 68.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2), moist, carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout; 7 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN437005; moist when described;
    C—173 to 203 centimeters (68.1 to 79.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) sandy loam; moderate thin platy, and moderate medium platy structure; friable; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0.; moist when described;