IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Beseman
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MN1372863
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MN1372863
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1978MN1372863
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2863
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50743
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 47.4552155
  • Std. Longitude: -92.7595901
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 57N
  • Range: 19W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4NE1/4
  • Map Unit: B14A—Greenwood soils, Upham basin, 0 to 1 percent slopesB152A—Greenwood soils (Hibbing catena), 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN137—St. Louis
  • MLRA: 88—Northern Minnesota Glacial Lake Basins
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-BEM—Bemidji, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN621—St. Louis County, Minnesota, Virginia Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47092-D7—Buhl, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Morton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, dysic, frigid Terric Haplosaprists
  • 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 - Beseman
  • PSC - 0 to 130 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/14/2020
  • Classifier - Dan Wing
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - peraquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MERWIN
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, dysic, frigid Terric Haplohemists
  • Classificaton Date - 10/10/1978
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: organic material over loamy till
  • Landform: bog
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/10/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Morton
  • Air Photo ID: 416NE
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - swamp
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PIMA

    LARIX

    LEGR

    CHCA2

    Picea mariana

    Larix

    Ledum groenlandicum

    Chamaedaphne calyculata

    black spruce

    larch

    bog Labrador tea

    leatherleaf

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

    sapric soil materials

    hemic soil materials

    aquic conditions

    histic epipedon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—91

    0—46

    0—203

    46—91

    91—203

    —91—

    —46—

    —203—

    —45—

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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

    0

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    427

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    Oe—0 to 46 centimeters (0.0 to 18.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) mucky peat; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, pH indicator solutions.
    Oa—46 to 91 centimeters (18.1 to 35.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) muck; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH indicator solutions.
    Cg—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); greenish gray (5GY 6/1) loam; massive; fragments. Lab sample # MN286301