IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bellechester
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972MN1091561
  • User Pedon ID: S1972MN1091561
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1561
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49835
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 44.1085100
  • Std. Longitude: -92.4196100
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 108N
  • Range: 13W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet north and 120 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN109—Olmsted
  • MLRA: 105—Upper Mississippi River Bedrock Controlled Uplands and Valleys
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ONA—Onalaska, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN109—Olmsted County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44092-B4—Zumbro Lake, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Entic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bellechester
  • PSC - 25 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bellechester
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, mixed, mesic Entic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/17/2010
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • 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: sandy colluvium
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/17/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    paralithic materials

    redox concentrations

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    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

    26

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    270

    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00014925

    ROCHESTER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, MN US

    NOAA
    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) loamy sand; structureless single grain; loose; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN156101
    A2—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; loose; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN156102
    A3—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; loose; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MN156103
    Bw—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; loose; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MN156104
    C—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; loose; ; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN156105
    Cr1—86 to 109 centimeters (33.9 to 42.9 inches); yellow (10YR 8/6) fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; loose; 21 percent coarse faint brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MN156106
    Cr2—109 to 119 centimeters (42.9 to 46.9 inches); pale yellow (5Y 8/2) fine sand; structureless single grain; loose; fragments. Lab sample # MN156107