IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cokato
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2017MN079194
  • User Pedon ID: S2017MN079194
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T2017MN079014
  • Transect Stop Number - 13
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N0385
  • User Project ID: 2018-1
  • Project Name: MLRA 103 - Typic Argiudoll, Mollic Hapludalf transition zone - Reedslake catena
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • 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: 44.2025100
  • Std. Longitude: -93.6238500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN079—Le Sueur
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ALB—Albert Lea, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN079—Le Sueur County, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Clayton Johnson
  • 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: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cokato
  • PSC - 28 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2018
  • Classifier - Myles Elsen
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy till
  • Landform: ground moraine, till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R103XY020MN Loamy Upland Savannas

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/24/2017 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Clayton Johnson
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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—28

    28—76

    102—200

    —28—

    —48—

    —98—
    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

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; loam; 38 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 20 percent clay; fragments. Lab sample # 18N02358; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt—28 to 76 centimeters (11.0 to 29.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) clay loam; 36 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 28 percent clay; fragments. Lab sample # 18N02359; observed in auger, bucket
    Bw—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) loam; 39 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 20 percent clay; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # 18N02360; observed in auger, bucket
    Bk—102 to 124 centimeters (40.2 to 48.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; 37 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 20 percent clay; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # 18N02361; observed in auger, bucket
    C—124 to 200 centimeters (48.8 to 78.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; 39 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 12 percent clay; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # 18N02362; observed in auger, bucket