IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Minnetonka
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972MN0131606
  • User Pedon ID: S1972MN0131606
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1606
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49780
  • User Project ID: 2027-2
  • Project Name: MLRA 103 - Ice Contact and Moraine Investigation
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 44.0507507
  • Std. Longitude: -93.9857178
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 107N
  • Range: 26W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4NW1/4NW1/4
  • 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: 44093-A8—Beauford, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Minnetonka
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Waldorf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/3/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/3/2011 (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
    • 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 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (N 2.5/), silty clay loam; cloddy structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN160601
    A—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); black (N 2.5/), and black (5Y 2/1) silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN160602
    Btg1—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN160603
    Btg2—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine distinct olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN160604
    BCg—84 to 102 centimeters (33.1 to 40.2 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) and light olive gray (5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN160605
    Cg—102 to 122 centimeters (40.2 to 48.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) and light olive gray (5Y 6/2) silt loam; massive; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5. Lab sample # MN160606