IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cokato
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992MN0854656
  • User Pedon ID: S1992MN0854656
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN4656
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50853
  • User Project ID: 2029-3
  • Project Name: MLRA 103 - Ice Contact and Moraine Investigation
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 44.9710388
  • Std. Longitude: -94.4091339
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 117N
  • Range: 30W
  • Section: 2
  • Location Description: location is an estimate as the point was only to the section level
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN085—McLeod
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ALB—Albert Lea, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN085—McLeod County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44094-H4—Hutchinson West, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Lueth, Norman Kulhman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cokato
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cokato
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/15/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/15/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    free carbonates

    0—41

    41—86

    86—152

    —41—

    —45—

    —66—
    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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    A1—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN465601
    A2—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN465602
    Bt1—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN465603
    Bt2—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN465604
    Bt3—76 to 86 centimeters (29.9 to 33.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 6 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN465605
    Bk1—86 to 114 centimeters (33.9 to 44.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium platy structure; friable; 6 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay films on surfaces along pores; 1 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN465606
    Bk2—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium platy structure; friable; 21 percent medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent medium prominent 2.5Y 5/8 (2.5Y 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN465607