IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Beltrami
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976MN145032 (2292)
  • User Pedon ID: S1976MN145032 (2292)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2292
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47760
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 45.5589180
  • Std. Longitude: -94.5642014
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 124N
  • Range: 31W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 460 feet north and 640 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-E5—Farming, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Charles Saari
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aquic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Unknown
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Beltrami
  • PSC - 51 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Beltrami
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-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: 12/1/1976 (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

    glossic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—51

    38—51

    51—117

    —51—

    —13—

    —66—
    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

    2

    —

    —

    —

    —

    180

    680

    —

    135

    5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN229201; moist when described;
    E—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; loam; weak fine granular parts to moderate medium platy structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN229202; moist when described;
    E/B—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; friable; 0.1 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN229203; moist when described;
    Bt1—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots; 5 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN229204; moist when described;
    Bt2—66 to 89 centimeters (26.0 to 35.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 30 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN229205; moist when described;
    Bt3—89 to 117 centimeters (35.0 to 46.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 30 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN229206; moist when described;
    C—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) sandy loam; friable; brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 33 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6. Lab sample # MN229207; moist when described;