IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Beltrami
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969MN041945
  • User Pedon ID: S1969MN041945
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL2
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN0945
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82785
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024
  • 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: 45.9914169
  • Std. Longitude: -95.3949203
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 129N
  • Range: 37W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 37 feet north and 165 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: located about 7 miles north of Alexandria
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN041—Douglas
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN041—Douglas County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45095-H4—Alexandria West, Minnesota
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Donald E. DeMartelaere
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Beltrami (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/29/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Beltrami
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/20/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 2


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/20/1969 (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
  • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—28

    15—28

    28—86

    —28—

    —13—

    —58—

    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

    1

    411

    0

    645

    145

    6

    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN500120; moist when described;
    E1—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loam; weak thin platy structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500121; moist when described;
    E2—23 to 28 centimeters (9.1 to 11.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine sandy loam; weak thin platy, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500122; moist when described;
    Bt1—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 51 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, sand coats on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500123; moist when described;
    Bt2—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 6 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, sand coats on all faces of peds and 51 percent prominent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 1 percent fine prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; strongly acid, pH 5.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500124; moist when described;
    Bt3—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 26 percent faint very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels; 10 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 10 percent fine distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 8 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN500125; moist when described;
    Bk—86 to 152 centimeters (33.9 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 10 percent fine light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate masses in matrix; 1 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 8 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # MN500126; moist when described;