IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kelliher
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976MN145034 (2290)
  • User Pedon ID: S1976MN145034 (2290)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2290
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47761
  • 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: 45.6989403
  • Std. Longitude: -94.6334915
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 126N
  • Range: 31W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 840 feet south and 3660 feet west of the northeast 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-F6—Freeport, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Charles Saari
  • 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 - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/6/2017
  • 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 - 12/2/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/2/1976 (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

    argillic horizon

    0—36

    36—104

    —36—

    —68—
    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

    —

    —

    —

    —

    135

    680

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    135

    5

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN229001; moderately dry when described;
    E—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loam; weak fine granular parts to weak fine platy structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN229002; moderately dry when described;
    Bt1—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 5 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN229003; moderately dry when described;
    Bt2—61 to 74 centimeters (24.0 to 29.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent black (10YR 2/1), 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; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN229004; moderately dry when described;
    Bt3—74 to 104 centimeters (29.1 to 40.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN229005; moderately dry when described;
    C—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) loam; friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2. Lab sample # MN229006; moderately dry when described;