IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kelliher
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972MN145004 (1521)
  • User Pedon ID: S1972MN145004 (1521)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1521
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47686
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 45.7024689
  • Std. Longitude: -94.8474731
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 33N
  • Range: 12W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 2375 feet south and 600 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN145—Stearns
  • MLRA: 57—Northern Minnesota Gray Drift
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN145—Stearns County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45094-F7—Melrose, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kelliher
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/30/2017
  • Classifier - T. Neuenfeldt
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Beltrami
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/10/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: moraine
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/10/1972 (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

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—81

    —18—

    —63—
    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

    3

    —

    —

    —

    —

    270

    680

    —

    135

    5

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN152101; moist when described;
    E—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; fine sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN152102; moist when described;
    Bt1—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, sand coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN152103; moist when described;
    Bt2—25 to 53 centimeters (9.8 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN152104; moist when described;
    Bt3—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent medium light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN152105; moist when described;
    Bt4—69 to 81 centimeters (27.2 to 31.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loam; weak very coarse platy structure; friable; 11 percent fine olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 8 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN152106; moist when described;
    Cg—81 to 127 centimeters (31.9 to 50.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loam; friable; 11 percent fine olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5. Lab sample # MN152107; moist when described;