IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tonka
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MN023(1985)
  • User Pedon ID: S1975MN023(1985)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1985
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50005
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 45.0368004
  • Std. Longitude: -95.3396683
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 118N
  • Range: 37W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 162 feet north and 18 feet west of the southeast corner of the SW1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN023—Chippewa
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN023—Chippewa County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45095-A3—Kerkhoven SE, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Argialbolls
  • 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 - Tonka
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tonka
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/24/2011
  • 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 glaciolacustrine deposits over loamy till
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/24/2011 (entry creation 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    645

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    145

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN198501
    A—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak medium platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN198502
    Eg—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; loam; moderate medium platy structure; very friable; 3 percent medium faint dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN198503
    Btg1—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent fine prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN198504
    Btg2—69 to 104 centimeters (27.2 to 40.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3 percent medium distinct olive (5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN198505
    2C—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay loam; friable; 3 percent medium faint olive (5Y 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MN198506