IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Okoboji
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972MN0131614
  • User Pedon ID: S1972MN013(1614)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1614
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49786
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 43.9633789
  • Std. Longitude: -94.2480545
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 106N
  • Range: 28W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 2000 feet east and 100 feet south of the northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN013—Blue Earth
  • 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: MN013—Blue Earth County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43094-H2—Amboy, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Cumulic Vertic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Okoboji
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lyra
  • Classificaton Date - 1/3/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey lacustrine deposits
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/3/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (N 2.5/), silt loam; cloddy structure; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN161401
    A1—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); black (N 2.5/), silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN161402
    A2—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); black (5Y 2.5/1) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN161403
    A3—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); black (5Y 2.5/1) and very dark gray (5Y 3/1) silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN161404
    A4—81 to 102 centimeters (31.9 to 40.2 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN161405
    Bg—102 to 114 centimeters (40.2 to 44.9 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) silty clay loam; massive; friable; 1 percent fine distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN161406
    Cg—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silt loam; massive; friable; 3 percent medium distinct olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # MN161407